Migrating from Intel mobo to AMD mobo - XP dies with 7e Stop

There are no tricks to help you.

YOU CANNOT TAKE AN EXISTING, WORKING XP HD TO A VERY DIFFERENT HARDWARE SETUP. ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT WORK!

Just dismissing the fact, for now, that the chipset drivers set up on the existing hard drive will not run the new mobos' chipset, you're faced with the marriage of your key and the hardware hash required for boot.

To put it simply; booting up on an existing hd requires a "vote" of 7 or more to pass. There are 10 items that comprise the hash (a total of 12 votes). All get one vote, except the nic which gets 3. The changes that you've made only leaves the hd, and maybe the ram as the same - only two votes. You lose! Welcome to the wonderful world of anti-piracy XP.

With a lot of gymnastics, you could do what you would like to do in W98 - NOT XP.

I have to tell you that you must do a fresh install.

http://www.answers.com/topic/hardw [...] tion-layer
that's for your information

and this,
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -US;237556
you may try for your problem. I never tried it myself, but maybe you can do it and tell me if it works

thanks for the help.

I did try my hardest to overcome the laws of M$. But I failed..and am resorting to reinstall (painful).

I tried everything I could..since I have done it before, but most likely because the hardware was similar enough and was within the hash code as you mentioned.

As a test, I did try to migrate to another Intel platform and it worked after a repair install.

Then of course the fresh install went in the AMD mobo, confirming further the antipiracy crap in M$. While I understand this, it really causes a major roadblock to upgrade your PC.

Here's the beef...I live in Hawaii, land of corrision, gecko poo, and giant roaches slipping into power supplies. It is shear death for computers after a few years. I need to upgrade.

I don't want to have constantly reinstall after I've spent half my life updating M$. I have tons of programs installed..many are purchased downloads that I probably have key for (but where?), or have to be repurchased. Especially those programs that help keep out all the creeps that ooze into the cracks of M$. Or forced slavery of programs to weed out spyware, malware, viruses, and god knows what else the conspiracy comes up with to pay the little computer monsters to write.

So M$, why can't I upgrade to the latest mobo and CPU every 6 months or 1 year mark ? WHY ??? it's all about the money...

I'm just a wasteoid in the minefield of the computer universe.

Hi, i did exactly as accal said and it works!!!

So pscowboy go get a real job...

Shnokk