Replacing mb and trying to reuse my HD and o/s

[cnorton]

It's time for an update so I replaced my Asus A7VBX-X mb with an Asus M2A-VM-HDMI also new cpu AMD 64 X2 4.8 G and Crucial DDR2. MY o/s is XP sp2 and I like how I have everything setup now and I would just like to keep using my HD but it won't boot past the selection screen for either safe mode or normal startup. It just keeps booting over and over no matter what I select and I have tried deleting the mb drivers in device manger. Am I just wasting my time or is there a good way to do this?

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

First try a repair installation of XP, if that doesn't work maybe a full re-installation is in order. Barring any hardware issues, this should hopefully get you up and running.

 

[cnorton]

I tried the repair installation and I am still only getting to the same point in the boot process. I was going to clone my HD to a new one I have. I took all the old hardware and set it up in another case so now I have an extra working system whichwill I try to get as much stuff off of as I have time for. Over the years I have built plenty of systems that I could swap HD's into but it has been a while since I have had to do this and things change rapidly in the computer world. By the way the new sys does work with a different HD and a fresh install of XP.

 

[The-Noid]

A lot of time you will need to do a fresh install. THis seems to be one of those times.

0 the hard drive before you reinstall just for good measure.

 

[lsman]

repair install was a last method...

what you should have done is before taking off the motherboard,

do a sysprep -clean
to clean up all device...

http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;302577


more detail here.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all...nstalling-Windows.html

 

[cnorton]

I have all my old components and HD setup in another case up and running now so shouldn't I still be able to clone the new drive and run sysprep on it?

 

[GundamF91]

I am running this same WinXP SP2 OS with all applications from a few years ago when I ran it on Athlon Tbird socket A board, which I eventually went to Athlon64 with Socket 754, and now I'm running the original setup on the Intel LGA775 with P35 chipset. I've using the same harddrives and same WinXP SP2 installation on 3 separate boards with many differences between them, and also from AMD to Intel. I haven't changed a single thing and I don't see why it would not work. As long as drive boot priorities are set up, the CPU/BIOS could care less what it is they're booting.

Make sure you clean off any special applications that tweaks your board or CPU set up, and also do not overclock before you do the changeover. I think your problem is getting the OS to boot, so it sounds more like the board not finding boot sector or picking the correct OS drive.

You SP2 should have no problem recognizing any board specific drivers. In fact, other than specialized items such as onboard sound or RAID tools, OS is not all that picky about the board configuration. I've had 5 different CPUs, 3 different DDR and DDR2 memories, and 3 different socket boards, and this Windows XP SP2 is working as good as ever.

 

[SanDiegoPC]

Remove all the devices from the DEVICE MANAGER. All of them. Restart, and let Windows see & identify all it's devices from the new motherboard. It works...