View Full Version : A tricky motherboard driver question for you!!
Our trusty 8 yr. old Compaq desktop has croaked (power supply & mobo both gone west). We have a spare working Asus mobo, power supply, RAM & case which we can use, however the Compaq came with "rescue" disks which will re-load Win XP back only onto another Compaq. Therefore, we HAVE to rescue XP off the old drive. Thing is, we somehow have to get the Asus mobo driver onto the drive! We can at least boot the setup with a Knoppix disk and we are wondering if the required XP mobo driver can be installed through Knoppix.
If not, we have a drive caddy which could attach the drive to our Win 7 pooter to carry out the transfer that way. Is any of this possible? All suggestions appreciated.
mad_jock
27th Jan 2010, 18:51
Stick the drive off the compaq into the new machine and boot in safe mode.
Then have a flash drive with all the drivers on it and rip out and replace all the compaq drivers on the current installation.
Reboot and jobs a good un.
Thanks m j, but we're not out of the woods just yet!
Selecting ANY of the safe mode options produces lines of rapidly scrolling text, something like multidisk0rdisk0partition0SYSTEM32.sys and similar, followed by an automatic reboot.
Keep 'em comin' please!
mad_jock
27th Jan 2010, 20:14
How to replace the motherboard on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824125)
Have alook at that.
To be honest I don't have much experence with OEM installations I have always used tech libarys to script an installation.
Hope fully someone else here can help a bit more.
reading it through it should work doing the repair. Although the orginal compaq disks might not be enough. If you get hold of a normal installation it should work and retain your license.
Saab Dastard
27th Jan 2010, 23:42
We have a spare working Asus mobo, power supply, RAM & case which we can use
That is, technically and actually, a completely different PC.
It is explicitly prohibited to transfer an OEM license to another PC, even if you delete it from the original PC.
That's the license you have, so you should be buying a new copy of Windows.
Sorry, but you are on your own here.
SD