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be4con · 05-17-2008, 12:03 PM

Well, generally good news. The new motherboard arrived, is fitted and the system boots. I've not been able to access one the IDE DVDROM drive yet but I need to go back into the BIOS and check that it is listed properly. The only other hardware issue is that there is no connection on the new board for the card reader but that's a minor issue, I never really use it and externals are ten a penny.

The major fly in the ointment so far is XP. I was able to boot to the CD and repair the current installation but during the repair it asked for a number of SP2 files which I couldn't locate. I tried to continue the repair ignoring those files but on first boot after the repair had finished XP crashed. It looks like I may have to reinstall XP completely which would be a pain but not an insurmountable issue.

If I were to install XP on a 2nd hard drive to boot to would I have any issues accessing the current drive to retrieve stuff from it, as long as the boot order is changed obviously?

05-17-2008, 12:03 PM	#51 (permalink)
be4con Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 62 OS: XP Home	Re: Is my PSU dead? Well, generally good news. The new motherboard arrived, is fitted and the system boots. I've not been able to access one the IDE DVDROM drive yet but I need to go back into the BIOS and check that it is listed properly. The only other hardware issue is that there is no connection on the new board for the card reader but that's a minor issue, I never really use it and externals are ten a penny. The major fly in the ointment so far is XP. I was able to boot to the CD and repair the current installation but during the repair it asked for a number of SP2 files which I couldn't locate. I tried to continue the repair ignoring those files but on first boot after the repair had finished XP crashed. It looks like I may have to reinstall XP completely which would be a pain but not an insurmountable issue. If I were to install XP on a 2nd hard drive to boot to would I have any issues accessing the current drive to retrieve stuff from it, as long as the boot order is changed obviously?