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re: Windows XP Home will not start after installing an Intel D845WN Motherboard. Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 11:41 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Your new board will mean a new install and activation. Since you were only supplied recovery discs, you are in a real dilema. Recovery CDs are only meant to work with the hardware that they were shipped with. To change MBs you will need to reinstall with a full version of XP which you will have to purchase I am afraid. Sorry, it's not good news.. look at this page for an example of swapping MBs under XP: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,11715,00.asp On Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 9:49 am, Karl wrote: >Win XP Home was pre-installed and I have 2 recovery discs. I originally used an Epox >EP-4B2M motherboard which I changed to an Intel D845WN m/board, which ran with no >problems. Due to a 'friends' tinkering I was advised to use the recovery discs. I >re-installed the Epox m/board and used the discs. Everything works ok until I try >to re-use the Intel board. >Win XP will not start. The computer runs through POST until it gets to a screen asking >me if I would like to start Windows normally, use a previous configuration which >works, safe mode etc. None of these work and I just get back to the above screen. >I have now gone back to the Epox m/board which works ok. >How can I get the Intel one to work as this is the one which I wish to use as it >is a full sized board with 6 PCI slots and not 3. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP Home will not start after installing an Intel D845WN Motherboard. Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 2:44 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) Gather all the information on your copy of Win XP, including your ident code, which HP should have provided. Contact Microsoft and ask for a replacement disk, that HP didn't give you a valid XP disk and, since you HAD to replace the MB, you need a full copy of XP. Microsoft should provide one. In the meanwhile, contact HP, as well as the dealer who sold the computer, by letter and tell them that their recovery discs are not sufficient, you PAID for and want a full copy of WinXP. Send a copy ot that letter to the Consumer affairs office of you State Attorney General and to the BBB. Note on the letter to HP and vendor where copies are going. We can not make the manufacturers responsible unless we play hardball. On Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 9:49 am, Karl wrote: >Win XP Home was pre-installed and I have 2 recovery discs. I originally used an Epox >EP-4B2M motherboard which I changed to an Intel D845WN m/board, which ran with no >problems. Due to a 'friends' tinkering I was advised to use the recovery discs. I >re-installed the Epox m/board and used the discs. Everything works ok until I try >to re-use the Intel board. >Win XP will not start. The computer runs through POST until it gets to a screen asking >me if I would like to start Windows normally, use a previous configuration which >works, safe mode etc. None of these work and I just get back to the above screen. >I have now gone back to the Epox m/board which works ok. >How can I get the Intel one to work as this is the one which I wish to use as it >is a full sized board with 6 PCI slots and not 3. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP Home will not start after installing an Intel D845WN Motherboard. Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 4:05 pm Posted by Phil R (1 messages posted) Hi Tom The good news is once you have a bootable install disk, you can just pop it in the drive and "repair" your original installation... @ the first screen choose "install" NOT repair... @ the next screen(after the drivers and install files load) you should recieve a warning that the install program has detected a previous installation, do you want to repair it? at this screen choose repair. The install disk will fix whats wrong and return you to your working installation WITHOUT having to re-install all your software and settings. a really neet trick! On Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 2:44 pm, Tom Swanson wrote: >Gather all the information on your copy of Win XP, including your ident code, which >HP should have provided. Contact Microsoft and ask for a replacement disk, that HP >didn't give you a valid XP disk and, since you HAD to replace the MB, you need a >full copy of XP. Microsoft should provide one. >In the meanwhile, contact HP, as well as the dealer who sold the computer, by letter >and tell them that their recovery discs are not sufficient, you PAID for and want >a full copy of WinXP. Send a copy ot that letter to the Consumer affairs office of >you State Attorney General and to the BBB. Note on the letter to HP and vendor where >copies are going. We can not make the manufacturers responsible unless we play hardball. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP Home will not start after installing an Intel D845WN Motherboard. Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 7:56 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) Will it work that easily with a new motherboard? Certainly hope so. The HP furnished repair disk certainly won't do the job. On Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 4:05 pm, Phil R wrote: > >Hi Tom >The good news is once you have a bootable install disk, >you can just pop it in the drive and "repair" your original installation... >@ the first screen choose "install" NOT repair... >@ the next screen(after the drivers and install files load) >you should recieve a warning that the install program has detected a previous installation, >do you want to repair it? >at this screen choose repair. >The install disk will fix whats wrong and return you to your working installation >WITHOUT having to re-install all your software and settings. >a really neet trick! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP Home will not start after installing an Intel D845WN Motherboard. Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 9:52 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Sometimes it will work with an XP CD made by MS and not the system vendor. However sometimes it won't.. It won't work with a restore CD made by the system vendor for sure. Neither MS or the system vendor will promise a successfull repair in any case.. You can only try and see but always make sure your data is backed up first.. Oh and BTW, you won't get a "free" CD from MS to fix your problem.. It will cost you! C K On Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 7:56 pm, Tom Swanson wrote: >Will it work that easily with a new motherboard? Certainly hope so. The HP furnished >repair disk certainly won't do the job. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum