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| 685935 | 2008-07-07 03:15:00 | Hi there all. I've been given an old Dell 260 GX. I currently have a PC which I want to retire. If I remove the hard drive from my old computer and put it into the Dell, will it work? the old PC is an Athlon 1.2 chip, the Dell is a P4 2.8 could it be so simple...? i fear not? |
theob (7255) | ||
| 685936 | 2008-07-07 03:49:00 | Format it and start again. It can be done but it is messy, removing drivers and putting in replacements for the new hardware/mboard. | Bantu (52) | ||
| 685937 | 2008-07-07 03:54:00 | I have the Windows XP CD, which is OEM with the old PC. it won't install onto the other HD will it? | theob (7255) | ||
| 685938 | 2008-07-07 03:58:00 | It'll install its activating that may not work If its been over 6-12 mths since you activated, it should work Other than that, a system repair might work (or may not). It wont work (it'll crash if you put the hdd in a different case with a different CPU) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 685939 | 2008-07-07 04:00:00 | I have the Windows XP CD, which is OEM with the old PC. it won't install onto the other HD will it? Of course it will. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 685940 | 2008-07-07 05:15:00 | thanks all- I activated it years ago, so i'll try the reinstall first... cheers |
theob (7255) | ||
| 685941 | 2008-07-07 06:18:00 | help! after booting the dell with my XP cd in the drive, it happily starts, until it reaches a blue screen of death.- with stripes! the technical information reads: STOP: 0x0000008E (0xc0000005, etc the numbers overlap and appear in white and pink, so a litttle hard to determine what to cut and paste into google, the four diagnostic lights on the bacl of the dell are all green I don't need to format the drive do I? or is that the problem? cheers Theo |
theob (7255) | ||
| 685942 | 2008-07-07 07:06:00 | If this is an old copy of XP without any service packs on the cd then it won't support PCI until service pack 2 is installed just turn off PCI in the bios. Does it say PCI.sys or somethin similar if so do the above. read this thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 685943 | 2008-07-07 15:30:00 | f this is an old copy of XP without any service packs on the cd then it won't support PCI until service pack 2 are you kidding or what ?........ PCI is 'periphal communication interface'.........it's the white 'expansion' slots inside the computer box.........they've been around for YEARS........even win95 'supports' pci..........what DO you mean ? I've been given an old Dell 260 GX. I currently have a PC which I want to retire. If I remove the hard drive from my old computer and put it into the Dell, will it work? yes it will..........eventually......or maybe if you are exceptionally lucky it'll work pretty well straight off..... what happens is that you are trying to run a pc with an operating system which has been installed on a different pc........it'll usually throw a wobbly and do just what you have .......bluescreen......this is most often because of the drivers etc installed on the 'old' sysetm......you need to set the pc to run from cd as first boot device.......and then start it up with the 'old' drive and the xp cd.........be aware it WONT 'automatically' boot to the cd it'll give you five seconds to 'press any key to boot from cd' ........if you miss this prompt it'll try to boot from the harddrive .......(and at some point almost certainly 'bluescreen'....i suspect this is whats happening) anyway having booted from cd you then need to follow the prompts to INSTALL windows........it *should* 'see' the existing operating system on the 'old' drive and offer you the option of 'repairing' it........this is what you need to choose........have your product key number ready.......after doing this 'repair install' you will have an operational copy of windows.......you'll need to re-install drivers for the 'new' motherboard/lan/sound card/modem/video etc and also 'activate' the copy of xp with microsoft after you've done it... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 685944 | 2008-07-07 19:37:00 | are you kidding or what ?........ PCI is 'periphal communication interface'.........it's the white 'expansion' slots inside the computer box.........they've been around for YEARS........even win95 'supports' pci..........what DO you mean ? I just ran into this problem last week rebuilt my computer installed XP from a disk with no service packs but got a sys PCI error had to turn off PCI in bios until I had sp2 installed. So no i;m not kidding it does happen it happened to me see my thread cpu not working with new mobo. say what you like the issue even shows up on MS website with the fix. |
gary67 (56) | ||
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