[SI-LIST] Re: Off Track system question
- From: "Drew" <drewmeister3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:56:45 -0800
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From: "Drew" <drewmeister3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Stephen.Wu@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] Re: Off Track system question
I had no problems going from a PII 450 to a PIII 933 and changing =
motherboards. However, I use W2K.
Cheers!
Drew
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From: "Stephen Wu" <Stephen.Wu@xxxxxxx>
To: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:21 PM
Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Off Track system question
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> I agree with Jeff. The mother board devices (eg. chipset) are optional =
to be plug and play. Changing Motherboard is not a usual situation. I =
don't thinks MS handles it properly.
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> Best Regards,
> Stephen Wu
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> ----- Forwarded by Stephen Wu/Americas/NSC on 04/01/02 04:18 PM -----
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> Not my exact area of expertise, but I've had a little experience here =
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> not surprised. Here's what I believe you're up against...
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> 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.
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> Jeff Loyer
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> From: Doug Brooks [mailto:doug@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 3:44 PM
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> Subject: [SI-LIST] Off Track system question
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> This is a little off-track, but I know someone here knows the answer =
to
> this!
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> 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!)
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> Does Windows (ME and XP) have a lock that prevents it from being moved =
to a
> different computer?
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> Doug
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