Swapped out mobo & cpu...

[kenmo]

I replaced my older MSI K8N Neo4-F socket 939 mobo & X2 4200 AMD cpu with 2x 1 gb of DDR ram with a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P, PhenomII X3 710 & 2x1 gb DDR2 memory...

I was all set to re-install WinXP-32 PRo but decided to reboot my computer. I had the Gigabit cd in the computer...

The computer boots up and detects everything and is as stable as a fine tuned small block Chevy V8...

I've never had this happen before. Usually windows is a mess and very unstable... AND I did not prior to rebooting delete any of the old chipset drivers....

The old mobo was a via chip set. This one is a ATI/AMD chipset mobo...

I'm going to leave the computer as is but intend to re-install WinXP-32 Pro (or buy possibly Vista 64 & more ram) on the Easter holidays...

Sometimes it pays to be lucky...

[Xylob the Destroyer]

crazy...
I'd say "lucky" is definitely the operative term here.

[Number Six]

I picked up an old thinline Toshiba that had no Hard Drive with a docking station that was missing the Floppy and DVD drives. The docking station connector for the DVD drive was broken off - someone did not know how to remove the ribbon cable correctly. I have never had success moving an XP hard drive from computer to computer, but sometimes you do get lucky. I have a bunch of older semi-useless laptops - so I started swapping their drives into this Toshiba, most just gave the BSOD, but the drive from a Dell actually worked and XP reconfigured itself but wanted the CD to find files - SCORE! I put a 30GB drive into the Dell and loaded a fresh install of XP and copied over the i386 install directory from the CD - moved the drive into the Toshiba - it reconfigured itself automatically because it found the i386 directory.

[bendixG15]

I put in a new processor 2 days ago and this morning when I booted up, I was greeted with a message that I need to reactivate windows XP because of substantial hardware changes.

Reactivated with no issues, just a reminder that Uncle Bill is always watching.

[TimA-C]

XP is actually quite a robust OS now and this not that uncommon. If the newly upgraded PC doesn't boot then often all you need to do is a repair install from a (slipstreamed) windows disk of the same service pack or later as is already on the machine. (Obviously it helps if you do some tidying up afterwards and even better if you can do it before upgrading your hardware!)

[kenmo]

Now I'll be swapping the old AMD X2 4200 & cpu into a Celeron 2.9 computer I have... When you have two or more computers (in my case 4) upgrading your best computer results into a cascading effect... My Celeron is the slowest computer of the 4 I own...

[fritzi93]

I'm taking a break right now from building (rebuilding) another computer. MoBo is the same manufacturer, CPU is the same. I'm gunna try to boot up from one of the old hard drives.

Here's hoping... :P

[redwudz]

It helps sometimes if you uninstall/delete all your old drivers, shutdown, then reboot with the new CPU/Motherboard in place. Then the OS isn't as likely to go crazy trying to use the wrong drivers. Of course you want to have all the new drivers handy.

Sometimes you get lucky with a transplant and the OS figures it out, but most times not.