OT/Computing: recovery from motherboard replacement

So, I've given the nipper's PC a heart and lung transplant by replacing
the elderly motherboard and processor (intel) with new (AMD).

Looking online, it appears that the preferred method of grief
minimisation is to use the XP install disk to do a repair.

As I'm now on SP3, should I repair with an XP sp3 disk, or use an XP SP1
disk (which is what the PC originally had installed)?

 

Won't the cunting thing just boot up with the old hard disk?

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sp3, every time, as it's got SATA drivers included.

 

Bluescreens

I've installed 2000 ok and it runs Linux OK, so the system's fine, but
XP's not that happy

 

I was worried you'd say that as when I tried it with SP3 it dropped out
to the dos prompt instead of going into repair :-(

 

Huh ?

 

I suspect you're looking at quite a prolonged period of pain.

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Fucking shit, it really is. Not to point out the obvious, but is there any
chance you could run 2000 or Linux on it? I mean, an OS is just a means to an
end, after all.

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TD
2000 GSX1300RX (red and black)
1991 VFR400R NC30 (black and red)
1993 Eunos Roadster (supercharged)
Missing: SOB, Unreliable Italian exotica

 

As part of the SP3 refresh, the Service Pack supported SATA (and hard
drives that were larger than 137GB) by default. SP1 & SP2 don't auto
detect SATA on chipsets so will only install if the SATA hardware is
emulating IDE. Because of that earlier versions generally won't see
many variations of SATA controllers without fucking about with extra
driver disks, which makes it a pain.

 

I'm sure I could do a clean XP install (assuming I can use my Dell key
with a retail XP home SP1 disk). But if I can get it running again with
minimal pain as it is it'll save me from having to reinstall loads of
the lads software etc etc

 

Path to the disks will have changed, so you'll get a hard stop.

I just upgraded the processor in my Vista box from an XP2000 to an
XP3200 to save me the grief.

It needed online revalidation, but otherwise it survived ..

Paul

 

OpenSolaris, obviously, says the bloke typing this on a Windows 7 box.

More to the point, use the SP3 disk as it'll save you the grief of
having to install it anyway.

 

I upgraded his box a while back by replacing the 1.3Gig Celeron with a
2.4Gig P4, but that was basically as far as I could go with that
motherboard and PCI-only graphics upgrades are quite constraining.

So I opted for a decent Asus AM2+ motherboard with onboard Nvidia 8300
graphics and popped in a 2 x 2.5 gig processor (4850e like what Champ's
got in his mdia centre). The subsequent upgrade to the 4 x 3.0 Gig
processor as and when they get dirt cheap should be a lot less painful

I'm expecting to have to do that.

 

I thought I understood this when I first read it but now I'm not so
sure. Care to elucidate?

 

I've swapped OS disks between cases before now, which is really what
you're doing here with a mobo swap. From W2K on, it's very fussy about
device definitions, which will change as you swap between controllers.
It looks to be hard coded in the OS (unlike W98 and below) as it's
able to boot, but blue screens when it tries to access the device via
the old paths.

Try an emergency restore. If you don't have the ERD, you can still go
down the 'install' dialogue, it'll detect an OS, and ask if you want
to repair it.

Give this a go before you blatt it and reinstall.

Cheers,

Paul.

 

I guess I can create an ERD by popping the HDD back in the old box (as
I've effectively re-homed the HDD, the original Dell box is sat there
diskless), bit won't that give me the ability to repair the Dell not
with the new motherboard?

I've tried to repair, but it drops out to DOS rather than popping up the
repair console

 

Yeah, I had this problem last weekend, but on W2K.

All the emergency options were screwed, ERD and automatic detection
(the partition map on that box is a mess) and the usual emergency
repair process wasn't repairing.

I gave up and was starting on a fresh OS install from CD, when it
suddenly detected an OS and asked if I wanted to repair it. I let it
blatt all the OS files, and it did a reasonable job of repairing the
damage. I lost a couple of apps, but no more than that.

All my user data is on a separate prtition anyway, so re-installing
isn't that much of a hardship.

Paul.

 

Ahhh... right, AHCI / Extended SATA etc etc support for native command
queing and all that gubbins, I get ya.