Xp upgrade went south

[suttonmf]

I purchased a new motherboard. The system is xp pro. everything went fine until i did the updates from M$. now all the machine will do is start to boot ( i get the Xp splash screen ) and then restart. I wend from a shuttle mb 1900 to a gigibyte 2600. Please help.

[Sterling_Aug]

Reinstall XP from scratch.

[nothing]

and don't update!



:p

SP1, a good antivirus software and a firewall...that's all you need.

[Sterling_Aug]

I disagree. I always update everything that makes sense.

[Johnny Fist]

I've been relatively successfull swapping motherboards from the same manufacturer. I went from a Gigabyte GA7DXE to a Gigabyte GA-7vt600-L without having to reinstall. Other than that, you almost always have to format and start over when swapping a motherboard.

Oh, and get the updates, too. But use your head when picking them if disk space is a concern.

[Ethereal]

Did you have a custom login screen? Did it say something to you when installing SP1 about the custom login? I ask this because the login screens for WinXP and WinXP w/SP1 are different. This happened to me when I updated with SP1 w/ a custom login screen and I didn't let it change the login screen to the new SP1 login and it would go to the boot screen and then just restart. I had to reinstall.

[Sterling_Aug]

I have been successful upgrading from one mobo to a different manufacturer, but it can also fail. It depends on so many things being different between the two.

You can always boot with the CD and do a repair instead of a reinstall.

[suttonmf]

yep that is what happned. I am now trying to get the data from the old drive, but now that I have Xp installed on a new drive the old drive ( the one this hold process started with is now saying unreadable. Any ideas about how or what is makin gthis drive unreadable. Thanks for the support. It has in it's own ways made this process easier.

[Johnny Fist]

Are you using the old drive as a slave? If so, then you'll need to set the jumper as such.

[suttonmf]

the drives are configured correctly. I used a program called GetBackData for NTFS. I am getting the files back now. after the files have been copied to a different drive, I will reformat the drive and use it again.

Thanks for the comments and help.

[saimyc]

once it's installed go right to windows updates and download all critical updates them most of the recommended updates, read thur them and you know what you need