I removed my harddrive from a stock Compaq S6010V and I also removed the CD RW drives and the floppy drive from the S6010V.. Now I bought a new Doom case with a 400Watt power supple, a biostar SATA motherboard, and an AMD athlon 2.20ghz 3700+ cpu and new 512mb PC3200 DDR Ram. So now i'm gonna put the removed harddrive with my files on it into the new case and connect it to the new stuff.. problem is the harddrive has a copy of Windows XP Home installed on it from Compaq.. Furthermore, the harddrive used to run on an Intel Celeron 2.5 ghz processor. big question is what is windows xp gonna do when it recognizes the hardware change? is it gonna flip out on me? n then what do i do if it flips out n gives me the blue screen of death r somethin like that. for this situation i have a drivers installation cd that came with the new mobo and i can borrow a windows xp cd from a friend.. besides that umm its up to u guys and girls to gimme suggestions. i don't even know if windows will flip on me
2006-08-18 05:34:41 · 5 answers · asked by sesh48 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
oh yeah plz don't suggest me that i make a copy of my files b4 i attempt anything bcuz i can't anymore since my old mobo flipped on me and died out.. so i can't do anything now.. also the chipset on the new mobo r most likely different from the old one unless i got extremely lucky while ordering it.. so i can't make a copy of the files n the chipset is different.. so any bright ideas??
2006-08-18 05:39:00 · update #1
am i screwed unless i buy a new windows xp cd cuz at this point the last thing i wanna do is spend another 110 bucks on it..
2006-08-18 05:46:37 · update #2
The problem you are going to run into is that your Operating system is configured for your Motherboard and other components and what will happen when you start up is your system will start doing what is called "boot looping" it just keeps shutting down and restarting over and over again. The only way to resolve this to reinstall the operating system and you will need a serial key in order to do this or else you will not be able to run your computer.
2006-08-18 06:05:51 · answer #1 · answered by the_eaux 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't ":borrow" a Windows XP disc and expect to install it on your computer and make it work. That is his original copy. If-and I say IF you get that Windows disk to install, you will still not be able to get Microsoft to authenticate it. With no authentication,you can't download any updates or security.Also,you may have to wipe your harddrive in order to get it to work on the new motherboard. You got a fine mess there kid and you may need to have an experienced computer repairman to get you out of that fix. Also,you need to buy your OWN Windows XP disc to be legal.
2006-08-18 05:50:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
XP has some sort of limit on how much hardware you can change at once, but i don't know what it is. You may have to re-activate xp or purchase a retail disc, because the license on your compaq is a manufacturer license.
You will have to install all the new drivers for chipset, gfx card, etc of course.
2006-08-18 05:43:30 · answer #3 · answered by hp_n5495 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way to find out is to try, but if you are relying on the restore disk to restore every thing back , that is not going to work
because the hard ware changed you have to install windows and all the soft ware one by one and remember when you install windows is not yours you can't activat it. try it first but do not format the hard drive this way you still have your data you did not lose any data .
good luck
Adnan Sallam
Napa,California
adnansallam@comcast.net
2006-08-18 05:56:07 · answer #4 · answered by Adnan Sallam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call IBM and schedule a tech to come out to take a look at it....For a Problem Determination call
2006-08-18 05:40:49 · answer #5 · answered by Simple1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋