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hardware up grade

by alienguise May 20, 2005 10:47PM PDT

hi all wondered if anyone can help. does anyone know of a work round after i upgrade the cpu and system broad from AMD to INTEL how can i get the hardrive to boot up. all i get now is a blank screen. bios see the drive and it,s the first boot device. any ideas

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Read these.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 20, 2005 11:48PM PDT

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=XP+CHANGE+MOTHERBOARD

This is not something XP supports. You get to help it.

Bob

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Windows

by Yew May 21, 2005 12:20AM PDT

Windows does not take very kindly to such hardware changes, and it often results in the need to reinstall the OS completely.

That's where I'd start given the rather limited details you gave.

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