New hardware & Win XP

rymus

Just built myself a new computer (spec following) and moved all the drives over from my old machine - hard drives, dvd ram, cdrw. When I started up the new machine with my WinXP Pro hard drive WinXP wouldnt start at all.. Kept giving me the old blue screen of death, even when I tried safe mode.

Old Machine
P3 750
2 x 80gb (1 NTFS - WinXP and 1 FAT - no OS)
1 x 20gb
256mb sdram
sony dvd-ram & hitachi cdrw (not very relevant I'll grant you)

New Machine
P4 2Ghz
Same drives
384mb sdram

I'm using all the same PCI cards with exception of my 10mbit network card as the intel motherboard has a 10/100 card built in.

I know I'll probably end up installing XP Pro on a fresh hard drive as at the end of the day its probably the best thing to do. Any ideas you'd have on my current predicament would be greatly appreciated as I'd like to keep my current setup. (Theres probably something very simple I'm missing but sleep deprivation is getting the better of me)

All I have to do now is get my monitor repaired... damn thing exploded last night

Mountjoy Mugger

You're always likeley to encounter problems unless you reformat the hard drives.

I wouldn't worry about product activation.

Saruman

Im assuming its a new mobo? Which is why you are getting the problem... usually best to reformat but otherwise BEFORE you strip system... on the old one you can sometimes remove all drivers and remove pci bus.. shut down.. swop over the stuff and boot up and half the time it will work fine.. others you will have to format anyway..

rymus

Originally posted by Saruman
Im assuming its a new mobo?

You assume correctly... Ta for the advice.. I'll give it a shot