re: Why Reformat and Reinstall??? Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 6:45 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Lee (1 messages posted) well, he's right, so far ive installed 2 MObo's and (this will be my second time) ill have to reinstall. basically, it boots, then gives youa blue screen sayin that it stopped the startup to protect your computer. if you know how to get around it, drop me an email, cos thats how i found this forum, looking for a way to do this w/out reformatting/reinstalling. laters Lee On Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 1:19 am, Tom S wrote: > >Les, I can't imagine why you'd need to reformat and reinstall anything on the hard >drive, when you change the motherboard. Shouldn't be a problem at all. > > >On Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 3:13 pm, Les Guiblin wrote: >I wish to put a new motherboard in my PC. I know I wil end up having to reformat >and re-install XP but am concerned that XP Activation will not recognise my machine >due to this significant change. Please advise. Written in response to: Why Reformat and Reinstall??? (Tom S: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 1:19 am) Responses to this message: re: Why Reformat and Reinstall??? (Dan: Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 10:32 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] New Motherboard Reinstall XP (Les Guiblin: Sun, Dec 9, 2001, 3:13 pm) re: New Motherboard Reinstall XP (Ricky Tan: Sun, Dec 9, 2001, 4:28 pm) Why Reformat and Reinstall??? (Tom S: Tue, Dec 11, 2001, 1:19 am) re: Why Reformat and Reinstall??? (Lee: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 6:45 pm) re: Why Reformat and Reinstall??? (Dan: Thu, Feb 14, 2002, 10:32 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum