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Date Posted: 17:11:06 03/03/07 Sat
Author: Erin
Subject: INSIDE..INSIDE...INSIDE
In reply to: Karen 's message, "Ooooh! Im so glad this board is up. I hope some computer guru can answer my question. Im in need of a new motherboard and processor but I dont want to upgrade to Vista. I have too many old programs that I need and I can get them to run on XP Pro or under emulation. Can I upgrade my equipment and still stay with the older program. My CPU fan is about shot and I know its going to fry my processor some day soon and the fan to fit is is no longer available. I hate it when technology does this to me. Thanks for any help. BTW I usually use AMD processors." on 09:24:49 02/07/07 Wed

There usually is an issue whenever you upgrade your motherboard and processor. When you do this you mess up the link that your OS (operating system) has with the hardware. When you initially install your operating system, the OS determines the signature of your motherboard. This determines how it will interact with the rest of your hardware. If it senses a mismatch when booting up, your OS will fail and it will start the reboot process over again. I would recommend that you only undertake this process if you have the installation disk for WinXP. If you have it you will have to do a repair installation which will essentially do a 'upgrade' on your system. You will have to boot from the disk and follow these instructions.

WARNING!!!
YOU WILL NEED YOUR INSTALLATION KEY AND OPERATING SYSTEM (OS) SETUP DISK TO COMPLETE THIS SECTION.

1.) Boot from your CD-ROM drive by either pressing F2 or the DEL key.
2.) Press ENTER.
3.) On the next page press F8. Don't worry at this point about the wording. You will NOT erase your data.
4.) On this page you will press 'R'. This will start the repair process on your Windows installation that is found on your C:\ partition.

From there it will read the motherboard again and update the config.sys file there. You should be able to boot normally after the process is finished. I hope this helps.

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