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Hi there
the mother board in my computer stopped working - no idea what is wrong -
but anyway I got another one, and set it up with my existing hard disk. But,
Windows XP won't boot up with the new motherboard. (There's just a blank
screen with a flashing cursor in the top left. Sometimes it comes up with a
"safe bootup" screen, where I can select various types of boot up, but still
I only get a blank screen).
Is it possible XP cannot recognise all the new hardware all at once? I seem
to remember hearing that XP somehow "registers" itself with the hardware it
is installed on, and can't be used with other hardware - can this be
horribly true?
Thanks for any advice,
Peter
Hi there
the mother board in my computer stopped working - no idea what is wrong -
but anyway I got another one, and set it up with my existing hard disk. But,
Windows XP won't boot up with the new motherboard. (There's just a blank
screen with a flashing cursor in the top left. Sometimes it comes up with a
"safe bootup" screen, where I can select various types of boot up, but still
I only get a blank screen).
Is it possible XP cannot recognise all the new hardware all at once? I seem
to remember hearing that XP somehow "registers" itself with the hardware it
is installed on, and can't be used with other hardware - can this be
horribly true?
Thanks for any advice,
Peter