I upgraded my motherboard and have gotten rid of the old one, stupidly
thinking windows would boot, find a different motherboard and update
the drivers automatically. That did not happen. XP crashes less than
a second after beginning the boot process.

The old system was XP home with SP-1 installed but not SP-2. It was
purchased in 2000.

The new motherboard is a cheap one that can hold a Sempron 2800. I can
get the motherboard name if it is critical but don't know if off hand.

I don't have my original XP home disk but I have a Windows XP
Professional SP2 Disk. Putting the disk in it searches for previously
installed instances of Windows and does not find any.

I have tried running bootcfg /rebuild and fixboot.

I installed the XP professional on a different hard disk, and have
copied hal.dll from xp pro sp2 to the old xp home windows directory,
but trying to boot xp home still crashes in less than a second after
the boot starts.

I have a lot of programs installed and would really like to continue
using my old installation of XP-home.

Is there a way to find exactly why the boot process crashes? Is there
a group of files I can move from another place to my old xp home
installation so that it will boot?

The hard drive that holds xp-home is working fine as far as I can tell
and I can access it when it is installed as a slave and I boot into the
new xp-pro. But it crashes immediately when I install it as a single
or master even with the new hal.dll and I cannot get the windows
install to see it to perform a repair install, but the recovery console
does find the old xp-home installation of windows.

I would really appreciate any help anyone can give me.

<quickquestion@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html


google "change cpu install xp"

There is a lot of stuff I should have done to windows before replacing
the motherboard but I no longer have the motherboard that the
installation works for.

These instructions come from the provided link:

The inaccessible boot device blue screen sounds like what I am getting.
Given that I cannot get into that windows installation directly but
can access the files from another installation - can I change that
driver by altering, removing or adding a file?

In news:1137273710.564625.254850@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com,
quickquestion@mailinator.com spewed forth:
In my experience, it's not easy to fix. But you can try this in the old
Win9x way: boot into safe mode (if it will go there at all). Go to the
device manager, and delete the motherboard specific components. Usually,
that will be hard drive controllers, USB controllers, drivers for any
motherboard mounted device (sound, video, LAN, etc. if they were part of the
original motherboard), and under System Devices, any brand name items (Via,
Ali, Intel, etc.) Then reboot. And good luck. With XP it is much more
difficult to swap motherboards.

Oh - one other thing: when you get it running again, you'll probably have to
reactivate Windows. This has caused me trouble before when the replacment
was done because it wouldn't run without activating, but I couldn't get the
modem installed to activate until it was running <g> (had to call MS to
activate manually.)

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quickquestion@mailinator.com wrote:

That is because it is an XP *Pro* disk and it is searching for
previously installed instances of XP *Pro*.

You cannot repeat cannot repair an installed XP Home with an XP Pro
CD. You need an XP Home CD in order to do this.


Yes.


Not without an XP Home CD that you can use to do a Repair Install. And
it has to be the same *version* of XP Home as you have installed (OEM,
Retail Upgrade, Retail Full Install, etc) or your original Product Key
will not be accepted.

Without an XP Home CD to use for the Repair Install what you have may
be as good as you are going to get.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

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as you see , that will not work.
to repair your XP home installation...you will need an XP home cd.
that simple

I got a new xp home disk and installed it.

But if I have access to the disk, is it possible to replace the
motherboard driver from outside the installation? Aren't there some
files I can alter to change the motherboard windows is set to use?

This is just out of curiousity. I'll never do this again but the files
necessary to connect windows to a motherboard must be somewhere on the
drive.

philo wrote:

In news:1137368646.394232.161590@g49g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com,
quickquestion@mailinator.com spewed forth:
Didn't you read my post?

<quote>
boot into safe mode (if it will go there at all). Go to the
device manager, and delete the motherboard specific components. Usually,
that will be hard drive controllers, USB controllers, drivers for any
motherboard mounted device (sound, video, LAN, etc. if they were part of the
original motherboard), and under System Devices, any brand name items (Via,
Ali, Intel, etc.) Then reboot.
</quote>

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Regardless of Public Law No. 109-162 I hereby affirm that it is
probably my intent to annoy the reader of this post. Get over it.