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Title: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Lead Head on 22 June 2005, 13:54

I have a dual boot system, linux and windows. I got a new Athlon 64 motherboard and put it in. Linux found and installed everything with no problem. it took me about 3 Hrs and a phone call to microsoft to get XP up and running. Now IE is missing and i can't get into windows update and i need XP for all me games

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 22 June 2005, 16:12

So, what do you want us to do about it?

How did you delete IE? Because we'd all love to know ho you did it. ;)

Otherwise, if you want Windows help, then could someone please bin this!

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: luckyp3616 on 22 June 2005, 16:21

Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head

I have a dual boot system, linux and windows. I got a new Athlon 64 motherboard and put it in. Linux found and installed everything with no problem. it took me about 3 Hrs and a phone call to microsoft to get XP up and running. Now IE is missing and i can't get into windows update and i need XP for all me games

 Use Linux and SKIPMicrosoft

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Refalm on 22 June 2005, 16:26

Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head

Now IE is missing

And this is bad because?

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Lead Head on 22 June 2005, 17:20

i need windows to game and unfortuantaly IE did not deleted. I was trying to point out the swaping MOBOs under linux is easy but under winXP is a whole nother story, it took me about 3 HRs and a phone call to microsoft to get winsuck running. When i called microsoft i got greated with this computer person that could not understand a single word i said

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Refalm on 22 June 2005, 18:13

Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head

i need windows to game and unfortuantaly IE did not deleted. I was trying to point out the swaping MOBOs under linux is easy but under winXP is a whole nother story, it took me about 3 HRs and a phone call to microsoft to get winsuck running. When i called microsoft i got greated with this computer person that could not understand a single word i said

I can tell you the same story from when I was 13 years old.
The helpdesk didn't understand anything.

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: solemnwarning on 22 June 2005, 18:19

Quote from: Refalm

I can tell you the same story from when I was 13 years old.
The helpdesk didn't understand anything.

same here and im 13 too

NTL: can you click on the computers start menu and start internet explorer please?
me: NO FOR THE SECOND TIME IM RUNNING LINUX ON THE ROUTER, NO IE AND NO GUI WHY WONT U LISTEN TO ME??? ITS YOUR END

after 3hours of this, guess what? it was thier end <_<

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Refalm on 22 June 2005, 19:17

Quote from: solemnwarning

same here and im 13 too

NTL: can you click on the computers start menu and start internet explorer please?
me: NO FOR THE SECOND TIME IM RUNNING LINUX ON THE ROUTER, NO IE AND NO GUI WHY WONT U LISTEN TO ME??? ITS YOUR END

after 3hours of this, guess what? it was thier end <_<

I'm not 13 at the moment (19) :p

The people at my ISP know what Linux is, they simply won't help you if you've got Linux.

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: MrX on 22 June 2005, 19:30

you people don't make worthless posts about nothing. really nobody cares if you are 13 so just put that in your profile and delete your worthless posts above and leave room for this one.
usually when you replace the motherboard in windows systems we delete a registry key that houses all the device manager stuff. this clears it and so when we reboot with the new equipment the computer thinks it is new and we can start all over and install the new drivers. in windows 98, i would run 'regedit' then I would navigate to
+hkey_local_machine
____+driver
____+hardware
____+enum

go into add/remove get rid of all your old drivers if you can uninstall them from there.
delete those three subkeys (with the ___) and when you reboot with your new hardware just install the drivers and trouble shoot the yellow ! items things should work.

now we don't need IE to do windows updates. you need this handy FF plugin!
http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

hope this helps
Mr X

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Lead Head on 23 June 2005, 05:26

Thank you but I used to switch win 98 HDs from PC to PC without any problems. But what you stated above does not work under XP, i will just have to do a fresh install.

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Annorax on 23 June 2005, 13:38

Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head

Thank you but I used to switch win 98 HDs from PC to PC without any problems. But what you stated above does not work under XP, i will just have to do a fresh install.

Fresh install, fresh activation code, likely freshly bought serial... it's really not worth it. :)

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Lead Head on 23 June 2005, 15:21

No i will use a Win Suck-P disk and just tell Miro$oft i swapped to another mobo.

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Annorax on 23 June 2005, 20:28

yeah, but you know their stupid eula... isn't the OS license tied to the hardware ID, which changes when you switch mobos?

Title: Re: Sawpping MOBOs with WinXP
Post by: Lead Head on 23 June 2005, 20:51

The OS is almost right now like i said i need it for gaming i just re-installed SP2