hard drive

[Howie]

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after changing my mother board,and using the same hard
drive,windows xp will not load or start up. Can anyone
help?
Howie

 

[Guest]

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>-----Original Message-----
>after changing my mother board,and using the same hard
>drive,windows xp will not load or start up. Can anyone
>help?
>Howie
>.

Windows XP requires a new installation to recognise a new
motherboard. You will need to reinstall or install the old
motherboad to use your computer again.

 

[george]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

If it's not the exact same board as the one you replaced, you need to do a reinstall of XP.