XP wont boot after P4 to Athlon 64 Switch

[HighPsi50]

I recently got a new athlon 64 3200+ and mobo to replace my aging 1.6 P4 setup. I had a relatively fresh XP Pro install on the machine (approx. 1 month old) that was working fine, but trying to use this drive in the new Athlon 64 machine results in the machine resetting itself as soon as windows begins to load up. I put a spare blank drive in the new machine and installed xp and it runs fine.

Is this just too big a hardware swap for XP to deal with, or is there some way to "persuade" it to work again. I have backup images of the drive but i don't think they would work any better since there is nothing wrong with the drive or its data (it still will boot and run in the P4 machine fine).

 

[agnitrate]

Swapping motherboards is pretty much a guaranteed reformat, especially with a huge change from an Intel chipset to a 64-bit Athlon chipset. Just reformat that suckah and get it over with

-silver

 

[selene]

if u can afford to switch back,

extract sysprep off your windows cd, run sysprep and use Select PNP flag & Pull Shutdown to restart, and hit "RESEAL"

shutdown the machine, switch to new system, it'll run through the windows setup process with new driver detection, etc.

sysprep is your friend