New motherboard woes

[LaTrine Jakscoon]

I had a new motherboard put in today into one of my pcs (not this one) as well as extra ram and a dual core processor.

Anyway, just finished plugging everything back in and all my programs have disappeared, apart from my OS (XP)- I am trying to reinstall from backup but its a pain - is there any way this could be speeded up? I tried looking for a restore point I made before upgrading but its gone.

[Maleficarum]

You sure they didn't replace the HD as well?

[LaTrine Jakscoon]

Nope, because of my files are still there

[Massa Charlie]

Your firmware in the new motherboard probably doesn't recognize the directory on your old hard disk. Guess you could try rebuilding the directory on the hard drive (run your HD optimizer). But if that makes you too nervous, there's nothing to do but manually reinstall all your stuff and consider it a lesson learned. Back-up to an external drive next time with a cloning application.

:hnk

[Clorox]

Your firmware in the new motherboard probably doesn't recognize the directory on your old hard disk. Guess you could try rebuilding the directory on the hard drive (run your HD optimizer). But if that makes you too nervous, there's nothing to do but manually reinstall all your stuff and consider it a lesson learned. Back-up to an external drive next time with a cloning application.

:hnk

Yuppers. That's the problem in a nutshell.

[LaTrine Jakscoon]

I just got pissed off with the whole thing - too many errors coming up after reinstalling the programmes so I just killed the whole thing and I'm starting again from scratch. Good thing is that all stuff like pics, videos and music were all in external drives.

It looks like I am going to have a long day - hubby is making me lots of coffee :lol

[romper]

You can not change the CPU and the MB and to expect the Windows installation to work well, you must reinstall. Especially if it was an AMD cpu and changed to Intel, in that case it even is a miracle that the OS booted in the first place.

[103rapesAday]

You can not change the CPU and the MB and to expect the Windows installation to work well, you must reinstall. Especially if it was an AMD cpu and changed to Intel, in that case it even is a miracle that the OS booted in the first place.

That's not necessarily true, xp is one tough S.O.B, I've repaired and upgraded at least 10 computers reusing the hard drive from the previous setup (you just have to uninstall the graphics driver, AGP controller driver if the new computer uses pci-express, and network card driver), and set the bios to boot from it. It'll reboot about 3 times and you can drop in the motherboard drivers disc and have it reload the drivers from it. I yet to have this fail, I think most people are much better doing a fresh install instead on a newer (most likely much better and faster) hard drive. XP has excellent plug'n play capabilities imho, the only problems I've seen people have with it are that they don't use enough security programs (most people don't use anti-virus after the initial trial wears, that's why in the download section here I have a link to Avast Home), inadequate memory, and inadequate ventilation with today's hardware it flies.

:cff

[CT Wolf]

What was your old mobo and new one?
If the chipsets are very different, then you will be in for some work.
You can either uninstall the old chipset drivers, then boot to Safe Mode and just maybe, get the new drivers installed.
Doing the above is risky though and you are probably betters off doing what you did.

I managed to get away using the same drivers when I switched from a X38 to X48 chipsetted (is that a word, LOL) because the drivers were almost identical.

[niggersarelowlife]

Here is what I do. Start from scratch, Put in a NEW HD then after all is up n running, hook up your OLD C drive and transfer over Pics. Videos and so on. Just DON'T try to move any programs. It's better to start from scratch.