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re: Question about 'How do I upgrade my motherboard in Windows 2000/XP?'
Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 7:59 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bill Mead
(1 messages posted)
You guys need to read into Technet a bit. If you have ever dealt with imaging, you
would find that if you sysprep the machine with a pnp switch, it will strip the machine
of the drivers installed for peripherals and reinstall them upon configuration.
Interestingly enough, prior to the sysprep, you need to have the required drivers
installed on the system (available for the OS to see in the %sysroot%. There's your
solution.
On Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 12:32 am, Chris wrote:
>On all windows operating systems as well as linux you cannot necessarily change
motherboards
>and still use the same OS. In the older versions of windows if you tried this then
>you would get a "Windows Protection Error". If you are able to swap motherboards
>without a problem then it is sheer luck. There is no surefire way of telling when
>you will be able to switch motherboards while using an already install OS. A good
>rule of thumb to assure that your OS will still work is if you are installing a
motherboard
>of the CPU series (ex. MSI Pentium 3 board swapped with MSI Pentium 3 board). When
>you start upgrading or switching from company to company you run into problems.
You
>won't get the "windows protection error" with XP or 2000 but it still won't boot
>up into the OS. You need to to a format and fresh install. That's the only way.
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