Hi!
I just changed my old athlon on ecs MoBo (broken!) and installed a new
pentium on an Asus p5dg1.
I followed the istruction found on microsoft knowledge base to restore the
old installation of xp by booting from winxp cd.
The installation procedure seemed to go ok, but when i turn on the pc the OS
doesn't load, it breaks with a beep as the windows logo appears, and tries
to reboot.
I didnt find any info on this problem in the microsoft support site.

Can anyboby help me?
thanks!

huggies

Huggies wrote:

> Hi!
> I just changed my old athlon on ecs MoBo (broken!) and installed a new
> pentium on an Asus p5dg1.
> I followed the istruction found on microsoft knowledge base to restore
> the old installation of xp by booting from winxp cd.
> The installation procedure seemed to go ok, but when i turn on the pc
> the OS doesn't load, it breaks with a beep as the windows logo
> appears, and tries to reboot.
> I didnt find any info on this problem in the microsoft support site.
>

Often when you change motherboards, a Repair Install is enough to set
everything right - but not always. In your case, you will need to do a
format/clean install. Then install drivers and programs from
installation media and restore data from backup.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html - for changing
motherboard
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install

Malke
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> format/clean install. Then install drivers and programs from
> installation media and restore data from backup.

that's exactly what i want to avoid!
thank you anyway

Huggies wrote:

>> format/clean install. Then install drivers and programs from
>> installation media and restore data from backup.
>
> that's exactly what i want to avoid!
> thank you anyway

Yes, well... You went to a completely different processor architecture.
There really isn't any other way than a clean install. I'm sorry.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

> that's exactly what i want to avoid!
> thank you anyway
>

That's the price to pay for changing from AMD
to Intel .. mhoua hahahah hahhaha !!

Ok I'm sorry

Hi,

You might be able to install another copy of XP beside your original
one. What's most important to you, saving your info on your disk from
loss, or saving the time it takes to reinstall everything from scratch?


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