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["Loyer, Jeff W" <jeff.w.loyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not my exact area of expertise, but I've had a little experience here and am
not surprised.  Here's what I believe you're up against...

Windows has to adapt its low-level drivers for your exact hardware through
your BIOS.  If you change your BIOS (which you must do for the new
motherboard), all those settings are invalidated.  Windows doesn't know how
to communicate with the chipset, etc.

Jeff Loyer


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Brooks [mailto:doug@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 3:44 PM
To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SI-LIST] Off Track system question



This is a little off-track, but I know someone here knows the answer to
this!

I just replaced a motherboard in a system from a PII 400 to a PIII 1G. I 
had two hard drives configured for this system that I could plug and unplug 
into the computer, one with Win ME and the other with Win XP.  All the 
support hardware (video card, audio card, CD, etc) was the same --- just a 
motherboard, processor and memory upgrade. Neither drive would load windows 
after I switched motherboards. But I COULD do a clean install with a new 
hard drive! (Nothing wrong with the hardware!)

Does Windows (ME and XP) have a lock that prevents it from being moved to a 
different computer?

Doug



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