xp boot problems

Hi & Help,

I bought a AMD AthlonT X2 Custom Builder, a complete PC minus the OS. I thought I could take my C drive out of my old PC (32 bit motherboard) , place it in my new PC (64 bit motherboard) and boot-up. Well, this idea isn't working. My C drive is XP SP3 32-bit and boots in my old PC with no issues.

This what happends when trying to boot in new PC. It finds the OS, than displays boot options screen, boot normal, boot last known good configuration, boot safe mode, etc...I try all these options, but the next screen is blue screen, it goes by to quick to read, than the PC restarts and returns back to boot option screen.

I've haven't tried booting from my XP CD, I don't think that will work, because my XP CD is old and back before all service packs.

I thought I could boot from my old C drive, replaced hardware drivers with new motherboard drivers and all would be well. I am surprised XP can't boot using generic hardware drivers compatible with new hardware configuration and than allow me to install new hardware drivers.

Any ideas, anyone.

I could re-install XP on a new hard drive, but I wanted to keep from reloading years of software, some of which I probably can't find anymore.

New Hardware is:
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) X2 6400+
MOTHERBOARD: Asus M2N SLI NVIDIA nForce 560 SLI MCP Chipset
MEMORY: (4-1GB) for a total of 4GB PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 512MB 16X PCI Express

Kevin

Robert_RCR,

THANK YOU!!!!

This process worked in repairing my new hardware configuration.
I posted this same question to three forms and yours was the only advice that worked.

My life can continue now!!!!

Kevin