Guest cheley_bonstell88@live.com Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 Somewhere down the road I may buy a new Motherboard / CPU / Memory / Video Card / ( etc) for my 2003 Dell Computer how difficult will it be to get XP to recognize the new Motherboard? - and are there different methods of doing this? Thanks
Guest sgopus Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 RE: Install a new Motherboard in an XP Machine once the new MB is installed Physically, do not boot to the old install, perform a boot to the install cd and perform a repair install, once the repair is complete, then install the MB drivers. it should be that easy. "cheley_bonstell88@live.com" wrote: > > Somewhere down the road I may buy a new Motherboard / CPU / Memory / > Video Card / ( etc) > > for my 2003 Dell Computer > > how difficult will it be to get XP to recognize the new Motherboard? > > - and are there different methods of doing this? > > Thanks > > > > > >
Guest JS Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 Re: Install a new Motherboard in an XP Machine 1) Most likely your Dell OEM version of XP is tied/locked to the original motherboard or BIOS. 2) Dell often used non standard power supply connector pinout and if so could damage your new motherboard. If so then a new power supply would be a good idea. 3) A 2003 era Dell most likely used a PATA hard drive and most new motherboards support SATA drives and may or may not have a PATA interface. Think you would be better off with a new case, power supply and hard drive since you are replacing almost everything else in the old PC. Buy yourself a new copy of XP and use it with your new PC. Keep, sell or donate your old PC. JS <cheley_bonstell88@live.com> wrote in message news:9b65c448-f02d-4d00-8167-7ab574ff739e@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > > Somewhere down the road I may buy a new Motherboard / CPU / Memory / > Video Card / ( etc) > > for my 2003 Dell Computer > > how difficult will it be to get XP to recognize the new Motherboard? > > - and are there different methods of doing this? > > Thanks > > > > >
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 Re: Install a new Motherboard in an XP Machine <cheley_bonstell88@live.com> wrote in message news:9b65c448-f02d-4d00-8167-7ab574ff739e@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > > Somewhere down the road I may buy a new Motherboard / CPU / Memory / > Video Card / ( etc) > > for my 2003 Dell Computer > > how difficult will it be to get XP to recognize the new Motherboard? > > - and are there different methods of doing this? > > If the Windows XP is a Dell OEM version then it is unlikely to work with a new motherboard. Most OEM Windows these days are tied to the BIOS on the motherboard.
Guest Bob I Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 Re: Install a new Motherboard in an XP Machine Contact Dell for the replacement motherboard, the XP license is for that computer. cheley_bonstell88@live.com wrote: > Somewhere down the road I may buy a new Motherboard / CPU / Memory / > Video Card / ( etc) > > for my 2003 Dell Computer > > how difficult will it be to get XP to recognize the new Motherboard? > > - and are there different methods of doing this? > > Thanks > > > > >
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