mobo fried, need help with old-new box 2

[os400]

Got this from a buddy. Hope y'all can help


my motherboard fried at home moved hard drive, video card, RAM, sound card, etc all to another enclosure. BIOS sees it all, but after POST, it hangs up. Windows don't load. just a flashing dash cursor in the upper left corner. Booting from XP Pro CD sees the existing Windows load and tries to repair it. When the install reboots, back to flashing cursor so repair load has not finished that I can tell.

when CD boots, I don't take repair option the first time, it goes on and says it finds the existing load then I pick repair there. loads stuff and reboots only to not resume the installation. thx man - I have data all on 2nd drive so np if have to reload XP, just doesn't seem like I should have to



Mike Butler
Iseries Guy -> PC's gone, SUNs gone - WooHoo
"Never put off 'til tomorrow what you should have done yesterday

 

[ski]

Evidently, the existing O/S still has the hardware data from the old MB, and is getting confused when it finds the new MB's hardware. Manually repairing the O/S may do the trick:
After booting from the Windows XP CD, press Enter when you see the "Welcome To Setup" screen to start the Windows Setup.
Accept the License Agreement, and Windows will search for existing Windows installations.
Select the XP installation you want to repair from the list(1 if there's just a single installation), and press R to start the repair. If Repair is not one of the options, END setup.
Setup will copy the necessary files to the hard drive and reboot. Do not press any key to boot from CD when the message appears. Setup will continue as if it were doing a clean install, but your applications and settings will remain intact.

If that does not work, then reformat the HD, and do a clean Windows install.

 

[samstone]

xp will not repair this conflict
this is a protection from license theft
you could replace all of the hardware but MB and you'd be OK
the MB is the key
you need the same type one with same bios to make it work
but now with repair (lost files) done it will not work anyway
you need to re-install OS
If you have a drive thats big nuff make new partition and put the new install there.
don't want to loose data put drive in a working machine and copy /save data
then delete all from this drive reformat and install system