Hmmm. I would think that it would be the other way around, with DOS versions of Windows being much easier-going about motherboard and drive swapping. I mean the less sophisticated the ACPI (and other) code, the less critical the settings of the OS should be for recognizing the hardware. I've seen guys XCOPY the whole hard drive in Win95a to another drive and motherboard, and the result was a perfectly functioning (well, insofar as Win95a was capable of being "perfect") new system. But I guess as long as WinXP gets a chance to re-enumerate at boot time, and as long as it doesn't run into something it can't "drive", it should work out okay. I've seen a couple of disasters where people tried to force a standard PC HAL to switch to the ACPI HAL, but who knows just what was going on in those cases? Being the non-adventurous sort when it comes to systems I'm going to have to use, I've always just done a clean install when changing from one system to the next. But then I tend to keep hardware configurations pretty stable and change to a whole new machine when it's time for an upgrade. I suppose if I were doing much building these days I might be tempted to pull some of these presto-change-o tricks, too! 😀
Anyway, Windows XP is, indeed, pretty robust. I think part of what makes it robust is its unwillingness to put up with any guff from drivers and hardware. It can be very unstable with bad hardware or device drivers because it is so demanding. But once you get everything dialed in, it runs like a stove.
- Collin
Anyway, Windows XP is, indeed, pretty robust. I think part of what makes it robust is its unwillingness to put up with any guff from drivers and hardware. It can be very unstable with bad hardware or device drivers because it is so demanding. But once you get everything dialed in, it runs like a stove.
- Collin
