My mainboard suffers from bad caps, and now my Athlon CPU is heating up to abnormal levels. I can either purchase the cap replacement kit, or look into doing a mainboard swap. Since I was leaning toward the mainboard swap, I was wondering on what cool techniques are out there to restore XP into a working condition without wiping the hard drive and re-installing...
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Last edited by 2Whyzzi; 10 June 2004, 22:13.ECS K7S5A Pro, Athlon XP 2100+, 512 Megs PC-3200 CAS2.5, HIS Radeon 9550/VIVO 256Meg DDR
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The best way is to run Sysprep, located in the support directory on the XP cd, inside the deploy.cab archive. Select the option to re-detect plug and play hardware. Usually works pretty well. You may want to back up your user profile beforehand using the "Files and settings transfer wizard", and restore after, since sysprep will wipe your profile. All apps will remain intact.Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox -
i thought the repair installation option on the XP cd was the easiest way it does the auto detect of hardware etc........Better to let one think you are a fool, than speak and prove it
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Here's a step by step guide with pics for winXP.
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I had been using the restore mode from the winxp for a long time, but I always resented the fact that I had to re-install all of the service packs afterward. I had never thought of using sysprep before, but I've had bad experiences with sysprep and "detection of non-pnp hardware" feature.
UtwigMU: That is really cool. I've never seen it before, thanks very much for the link! I'm going to try it out and possibly use it in the future!ECS K7S5A Pro, Athlon XP 2100+, 512 Megs PC-3200 CAS2.5, HIS Radeon 9550/VIVO 256Meg DDR
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe C Mobile Athlon 2500+ @ 2.2GHz, 1GB PC-3200 CAS2.5, Hauppauge MCE 150, Nvidia 6600 256DDR
Asus A8R32 MVP, Sempron 1600+ @ 2.23GHz, 1 Gig DDR2 RAM, ATI 1900GTComment
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I tried it, it worked.
I went from BX single CPU ACPI to 760MPX dual CPU ACPI.Comment
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Or just get the same chipset Mobo...that worked for me
Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?Comment
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Somehow I wish it hadn't worked...Originally posted by az
Just swap the board and hope it works. worked for me
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Technoid I think just sets the IDe controller to standard which means Windoze boots and then finds all the new stuff. Messy though as old stuff is kept.
In the past I used an Promise controller and never had a problem swapping boards.Comment
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It didn't work for me. I had ACPI issues until I did a format and reinstall.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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How should I understand that?Originally posted by Kurt
Somehow I wish it hadn't worked...
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Learning through experience...so you wouldn't give bad advice like "Just swap the board and hope it works."
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