chipset help

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

Changing a motherboard (and in 99% that incurs a huge chipset change) and
just restarting the PC gives poor old XP a cardiac arrest.

The correct procedure is carefully detailed at Michael Stevens' website and
is called a Repair Installation.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

If you have already installed SP2, you may want to consider making a
slipstreamed CD of XP which includes SP2.... you can then boot with your
newly created CD and the Repair Installation will include the SP2.

http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?a [...] article=49

Of course, to make the slipstreamed CD you will have to have access to
another PC - and the SP2 file - and a CD burner!
--
Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"John Fiorelli" <xrepo@aol.com> wrote in message
news:0e1e01c4a652$f2ec5480$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>I have had a motherboard crash and when I went out and
> bought a new board and put the whole thing together it
> would not boot up. Called the board manufactor and was
> told that there was a differant chipset on the hard drive
> then the one now and therefore it would not work. Other
> than formatting and losing the data is there another way
> around this. I think I can get another hard drive and make
> the old one the slave and copy all data over but trying
> not to get into a new drive. Called a few of the comp
> stores and they dont seem to know anyway around this
> except to replace the drive and copy. In the later of this
> I an getting an external hd to make backups, but still
> wonder if there is another way around this. I was also
> told to put in the new board and then put the xp Pro disk
> in and click on repair and that this might also load in
> the new chipsets. any ideas
> thanks
> xrepo@aol.com
>