re: Question about 'How do I upgrade my motherboard in Windows 2000/XP?'
Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 6:56 am
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Posted by Tim
(1 messages posted)
Solution Alternate procedure for In-place Upgrade:
Alternate Solution : Proceed per Solution 3 steps, except that no hardware is changed
until the first reboot power-down during the upgrade install, AND the Upgrade is
commenced from within Win2000 running on the hard drive, not by booting up to the
Win2000 Installation CD.
Before changing any hardware in the old system, while running Win2000 on the hard
drive, insert the Win2000 Setup CD and start Win2000 setup from within Win2000 (From
Explorer or Start-Run, run Setup.exe on the CD); (important to start from within
Windows 2000, otherwise you don't get the option to upgrade). Proceed with Upgrade
as described; choose to 'UPGRADE CURRENT VERSION TO WINDOWS 2000'. Once the system
has copied files and asks you to reboot, say OK. At the POST on this first reboot,
turn off the power. Remove old hardware. Install the new motherboard and new hardware.
Boot to enter BIOS; adjust BIOS settings. Shutdown. Power back on; Win2K will
continue the upgrade installation with a complete hardware rescan, detecting new
hardware and installing drivers.
I pickup this information at
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/win2k.htm
On Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 6:26 pm, JimmyJ wrote:
>i just went from a slot A processor and mother board to a socket A motherboard and
>processor with windows xp professional, i lost no files ,all i did was a repair
install.
>boot to cd, choose install , then choose repair, (first repair is recoveryconsole)works
>great, also did this on xp home
>
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