Switching mobo's now windows wont start...Help..

[SammieC]

Hi I am switching out a mobo for a friend with windows 2000, he went from a bx chipset board to a nforce 2, now it won't start up and I've tried going into safe mode, vga mode, it seems to be getting stuck on the agp install(at least in safe mode, it stops on loading the agp driver) Unfamiliar with this, anyone have any ideas of how to get around this.

He would like to save all his stuff and When I use a Windows 2000 cd, it wants to reinstall, rather than fixing the previous one.

Thanks in advance!

John(SammieC)

 

[ScrapSilicon]

a bx to an nf2 w/out a reinstall...oh yeah that's the ticket..grab another harddrive setup a fresh install..then slave the screwedup drive..burn onto CDs the data..gl Sammie ..

 

[GoHAnSoN]

well, bill gates doesnt want you to do that.
you need to buy another windows to do this...you get the idea....

 

[Raincity]

Just reinstall Win2K and boot into the second install, take posession, backup and start over.

 

[SammieC]

Thanks guys, raincity, thats just what I did.

Appreciate it!

 

[moonsite]

Best way I found when changing motherboard is to uninstall all the drivers, mainly the system devices drivers, before I shut off and switch the motherboard. Ofcourse there are some drivers you can't uninstall.

 

[BeanDip]

Boot off the Windows CD and do a repair install on top of the existing installation.

When it boots back into Windows do a windowsupdate to get it back to the level it was.