I have a emachine t2895 tower and the motherboard and cpu went out. I found a good deal on a dual core setup that supports my ram and hard drives, but its an amd setup and im running intel. Will I have to reinstall windows when I install the new components or can i boot off my old hard drive with my existing data?
2007-09-23 17:28:08 · 4 answers · asked by Kevin P 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It would boot but immediately look for drivers, so better be ready with the driver CD.
If it does not boot properly, try this XP self repair:
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897
Afterwards, load the new drivers. ALL your files will be INTACT.
2007-09-23 17:55:46 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your motherboard and CPU are toast, you are not running Intel, you are replacing motherboard and CPU chip, and you can use either AMD or Intel - depending on the motherboard. If you got a combination motherboard and AMD chip, THAT FITS your emachines case, no big deal, you install it, hook everything up, and REINSTALL windows to your hard drive. The motherboard has new drivers, the AMD dual-core chip has some differences that need to be recognized in the OS as well. So, you need to reinstall the OS. (You would have to do the same even if you used the same motherboard and chip combo that went out - since driver and hardware changes occurred following installation).
You need to backup your existing data BEFORE you proceed. Depending on if you have a full XP installation set, I can think of ways to install, hopefully without damaging your data. But the odds are you have a restore disk, and running that may automatically do a reformat and reinstall - so back the data up. If necessary put the drive in another machine, as a slave drive, and do it that way.
If you were really lazy and didn't want to bother, you could try putting everything together, booting a Linux liveCD and backing up - to an external hard drive, to another networked machine, or ????? I haven't done this, but I can see where it would be very doable - but then you have to figure out the Linux portion, and that might be more than you want to chew off. And you still have to reinstall after the backup.
A thought just occurred to me. If you have a restore disk, it may not work with the new motherboard and chip. If there is a hardware checking routine, it may reject your machine, since it is not the emachine you bought - it is now a very different machine. I hope I am wrong, but you may find that happens.
2007-09-23 17:39:11 · answer #2 · answered by Sp II Guzzi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't work.
You will need to use a recovery disk, as well as go into your BIOS to make sure all the hardware, ports, CPU, etc. are recognized by the new PC.
There are lots of sites you can Google on this.
2007-09-23 17:37:44 · answer #3 · answered by kako 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend reloading windows. But you may be able to boot up after you reload your drivers and copy your data to another drive or partition.
2007-09-23 17:33:27 · answer #4 · answered by protoham 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋