Installation Problem in XP

where do i get the Microsoft HCL...

one more thing i forgot to tell

before i installed windows xp
then my motherboard crashed and i changed my mother board
but windows xp continued to work

now after i formatted it
the problem started

 

i have a Aopen AK72 motherboard
http://www.aopen.com/products/mb/ak72.htm

 

hardware

rite here http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/

I have a copy of that boards manual. pdf format. Uses kx133 via chipset rite?. So windows 98 installed ok? Lets try this now; create a folder C:\copy now copy the whole winxp cd to this folder. If there is nothing wrong with the cd it should work. The setup is there too so you can now at the prompt type c:\copy setup [enter]

I have to say tho when I installed winxp pro on one of my box's, an old super socket seven K6-3/450 AMD....ah real old, everything worked, even my old isa modem, my old scsi card for the microtek scanner 5yrs, everything MS Signature or not XP found the drivers or made sub drivers work

 

My motherboard is not there in the Hardware Compatability List.

I have Aopen AK72 , but only Ak73 is there

Pls help me

 

listen now

My old mobo is not on the list either, in fact it's clear off the radar screen As is the isa modem microtek scanner, blah blah. And no I also have the original bios installed. Soooooo
Are you trying to install XP NTFS on FAT32 partition here? Sound like the deal ta me! Will not work! Do not format the drive with win98 startup disk unless, you are doing a DUALBOOT Operating system.

 

i have a FAT32 file system.. i dont want dual boot.. i just want windows XP... i have presently installed WINME.. but i cannot upgrade due the problem i mentioned above...

 

winxp prob

Maybe it's the language barriar? You have windows ME installed on this drive rite now? You are trying to install windows xp over the top like an "upgrade" is this correct?

On my post of april 6, could you "copy" all of winxp over to a folder on the hard drive?

Are you absolutly sure you have the jumpers set correctly on this replacement board? I'm looking at the manual now so no fibbin'

 

i dont think there is lanugage barrier.. and i did not touch my motherboard.. i had worked on xp on the same pc before.. prop started only after formattign

 

man-0-man just the facts, eh?

I know that flippin' 20 gig hard drive is ok. And I know that you changed the flippin' mobo as I copied this from your post:

"one more thing i forgot to tell

before i installed windows xp
then my motherboard crashed and i changed my mother board
but windows xp continued to work

now after i formatted it
the problem started "

This equals a comunication prob. Also none of my questions were answered last two post?

Help!!! Is there a patient middle aged computer tech out there that can save us both
\\\Rancher/// is napping now

 

hello all

i even updated my bios from the aopen site. still same problem

What is i take my HDD to my friends place , try installing XP and bringing the HDD back to MY pc ??
will Windows XP work if i do that ?????????//

 

When you install Xp - it then gets activated on that HD (it stores a confirmation code). So if you activated it on that hard drive, as I understand it - you cannot reinstall it without calling Microsoft for a Confirmation ID number. Since you changed your hardware (motherboard) as well - that will mean that the info that was stored about your computer will no longer be the same and XP will think you're trying to install it on another machine (from my understanding).

Go to this link and see what I mean http://computers.lycos.com/software/xp13.asp

That is probably why you cannot load it successfully again.

Good luck.

 

Yes/no.....but

mukundh, Yes if the winxp cd is good. Is it the upgrade or full ver:? Just remember tho, the motherboard resourses will be installed for THAT mobo & not yours! The sound/video/modem/usb hubs/chipset/cdrom etc: will be diff & will bring another issue when you hood the drive back home in your box. Be prepared! Let me know so I can leave town ok just kiddin'.

 

ok so that means i cannot take my HDD to another place and install XP there ??

is this the same case for windows 2000 too ????????

 

He's just saying that if you take your HD to another computer --- to install Xp - that XP will configure itself for THAT computer (the sound, graphics, motherboard, usb, etc)....so when you take it home to put it back with your motherboard, and your CPU, you graphics card, you sound card, etc - that it might not work properly.

Is that what ya meant?

 

nu issues

You got it right Lisa007 And if you have been following mukundhs "trials & tribbs" you can "see" the missed communes from time ta time.

 

Mukundh

If you really want try migrate here MS knowledge base # Q314070 How to Move a Windows XP Installation to Different Hardware

 

guys that problem was solved... it was due to the on board sound card... i disabled that and it works now...

BUT
another problem started
when i formatted c drive and fresh installed Windows XP during the installation im getting an error saying that cannot find EULA - End USer License Agreement . and it says setup will quit..

i tried another Windows XP Pro cd and im getting the same error..
i also tried Windows XP RC 2 cd and same problem

Pls help me

 

again?

The only time i get the eula error is when i don't follow the correct installation procedure. Allow the winxp cd to format the drive. When you see the menu; "there is already a primary partition" do not use this one, but allow setup to create it's own. You are trying to install from a win98 startup disc, don't. Use the cdrom selected in the bios as "first device=cdrom,c,a,other

About two minutes into setup you will be asked to type the eula #'s in the spaces provided

 

so i have to boot with the XP cd, format my partition during the installation and use...

so i shouldnt use the win98 boot dist and install from DOS ?

 

Correct, correct, & correct! Everything you ever need in the process in on the cd