Q: I hope this is not a repost of a tired topic, but a quick search did not turn up anything.
Im a new Intel motherboard D845PEBT2 installed with a P4 2.4 GHz CPU with my existing system. Now when I try to boot into WinXP (Pro, SP1) says that Windows was unable to boot, perhaps due to a recent hardware or software change. I am presented with all the usual boot options, but whatever I choose, my computer just rebooted. My brother had this problem a month or two back (different mobo, though), and he ended up reinstalling the OS. Me would like to know whether any other profession got. I saw no Knowledge Base articles about this when I looked, either (does not mean they do not exist) .
Any comments or suggestions would appreciated.
Let s hear it for the lurkers!
Best Answer: well .. the first thing is make sure that power is plugged in correctly and in all places its needed … then start off simple.. with cpu, 1 stick of memory, and the videocard … leave everything else disconnected and try to boot into bios settup and set ur timings and everything else as per the manual ..
Re:That's pretty much a "dirty" swap, all the old drivers are hanging around the drive and sitting in the registry. Repairing is a cleaner option.
Re:there is a way to make all of this less painful than you guys are making it.
I've changed motherboards plenty of times for customers with different chipsets and never had a problem.
Of course if you don't do one thing before u upgrade then u will get a blue screen like you all have gotten.
Here's what you do for future reference:
Before you take out your old motherboard, go into windowsXP (also works with win2000)
1) then go to your device manager:
2)go to your IDE/ATAPI controllers section:
3)go to the main controller, i.e. VIA, SIS, INTEL controller (not the Primary or secondary) and update driver:
4)choose to update the driver manually, then it will come up with a screen of compatible hardware:
5)your options will be whatever is current, i.e. VIA, SIS, INTEL (whatever yours is), and also Standard Dual Channel IDE
6)choose the Standard Dual Channel IDE controller and click ok. It will ask you to reboot, hit no.
7)now simply turn off the pc and replace motherboard
8)turn system back on and it will now boot into windows and begin to find new components
9)now your done! Install new motherboard chipset drivers and your good to go 
Re:I had a FIC AD11 board with windows xp on one drive and redhat 7.3 on another and when I upgraded to the Epox 8rda+ I had to totally reinstall
windows. When I booted to the linux drive everything worked fine except usb and sound. Nvidia supplied drivers solved that problem and I was ready to go.
I was surprised that I didn't have more problems.
Re:Ok, here's the aftermath.
I repaired the installation and all my files were unaffected. Registry, Start Menu, My Docs, everything accounted for. I was asked to activate XP afterwards, though. The key I had activated with before was, I guess, still in use by me, so that didn't fly. I had to call the 888 number to straighten things out. After that it was just mobo driver installation.
Thank you ever so much *tips his hat to guy*
edit -Yeah, I would be content if it would just boot enough to let me install drivers and have it detect all the new lovely shiny baubles I installed.
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Re:What happens when you swap boards in a Linux box? Nobody ever talks about that, so I've no idea what's needed in terms of new drivers, whether it boots up and says "hey, the current setup isn't accurate, fix it" or what.
It makes sense for Windows to not "work" when you change configurations, since the base hardware is completely different and needs different drivers, but it ought to at least let you boot up and install new drivers. Even Win98 managed that much even if it did it badly. I think the activation garbage may be to blame in some cases.
Re:While I repair my install with uncertain results (though comforted by guy), I'd just like to comment that the concept of an OS that can't survive any major hardware change is simply ate up with the stupids. I may be preaching to the choir on this……
Re:When you switch something major in XP it seems to brain dump. With a new chipset on my system it wouldn't do anything for me and I ended up reinstalling on a new drive. Hopefully you have better luck, let us know what happens.
Re:No, the usernames will still be there as before. At worst I think you're prompted for an administrator password again. Just to reassure you, I did the same thing a couple of months ago moving to an nforce2 board, and I've been running fine the whole time.
Takes about the same amount of time as a full install since it is copying all the files again, but no time needed for installing applications.Re:Will this adversely affect the "My Whatever" folders or, more importantly, their contents?
Re:Boot to the XP CD and when it locates your current installation, select the repair option. All your software and files will still be there, but all drivers will be wiped back to the way a brand new XP install would be, so you can load new stuff. Also you'll have to reload the Windows Updates as they get erased too.
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