Windows XP CD will not recognize existing installation
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From: Daniel Prince on 28 Dec 2009 15:24 My brother has a home built PC. It has an AMD Athlon (tm) 64 3700+ CPU with HyperTransport (tm). The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939. He has two, one-gig Crucial DDR ram modules. He does not know if his memory is ecc or not. He does not remember how old his system is but he says that the motherboard was obsolete when he bought it. Recently he has been having problems with his computer locking up. It started with ACDSee 9 but progressed to other programs. He wants to do a repair installation of Windows XP. He has Windows XP Home with SP3. His Windows XP CD is the upgrade version with SP2. When he boots with his Windows XP CD, it does not recognize his existing installation. It says that he needs to insert the CD from a previous version. He does not want to do a clean install because he would lose all his settings. Does anyone know why his Windows XP CD will not recognize existing installation? Is his motherboard known to have the bad electrolytic capacitors that fail prematurely? Is there a Windows newsgroup where I should ask this question? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY, REALLY good. I'll have some of that!"
From: Pen on 28 Dec 2009 18:51 On 12/28/2009 3:24 PM, Daniel Prince wrote: > My brother has a home built PC. It has an AMD Athlon (tm) 64 3700+ > CPU with HyperTransport (tm). The motherboard is a Gigabyte > GA-K8NSC-939. He has two, one-gig Crucial DDR ram modules. He does > not know if his memory is ecc or not. He does not remember how old > his system is but he says that the motherboard was obsolete when he > bought it. > > Recently he has been having problems with his computer locking up. > It started with ACDSee 9 but progressed to other programs. > > He wants to do a repair installation of Windows XP. He has Windows > XP Home with SP3. His Windows XP CD is the upgrade version with > SP2. When he boots with his Windows XP CD, it does not recognize > his existing installation. It says that he needs to insert the CD > from a previous version. > > He does not want to do a clean install because he would lose all his > settings. > > Does anyone know why his Windows XP CD will not recognize existing > installation? Is his motherboard known to have the bad electrolytic > capacitors that fail prematurely? Is there a Windows newsgroup > where I should ask this question? > > Thank you in advance for all replies. > -- > Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy > grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY, > REALLY good. I'll have some of that!" It seems he has an upgrade version of XP. The install is looking for an older qualifying windows version, such as Win2K or 98 or ME. "msnews.microsoft.com" is the MS news source. Go to Microsoft Public and find a Windows XP group. There are a lot, but I don't have any on my machine so I can't point to a specific group. The memory is probably not ECC and the mobo manual is found at http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Manual_Model.aspx?ProductID=1881
From: peter on 28 Dec 2009 19:53 First download SP3 from here and save it to your system http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en then read and follow the instruction here to slipstream SP3 into your XPSP2 creating a new installation CD http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xpsp3_slipstream.asp Using this "new" CD should allow you to do a repair installation instructions for which you will also find on Paul's site. peter -- If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "Daniel Prince" <neutrino1(a)ca.rr.com> wrote in message news:tt4ij5p0cbdnbv5jfpud7q5cqp6jmjl0s7(a)4ax.com... > My brother has a home built PC. It has an AMD Athlon (tm) 64 3700+ > CPU with HyperTransport (tm). The motherboard is a Gigabyte > GA-K8NSC-939. He has two, one-gig Crucial DDR ram modules. He does > not know if his memory is ecc or not. He does not remember how old > his system is but he says that the motherboard was obsolete when he > bought it. > > Recently he has been having problems with his computer locking up. > It started with ACDSee 9 but progressed to other programs. > > He wants to do a repair installation of Windows XP. He has Windows > XP Home with SP3. His Windows XP CD is the upgrade version with > SP2. When he boots with his Windows XP CD, it does not recognize > his existing installation. It says that he needs to insert the CD > from a previous version. > > He does not want to do a clean install because he would lose all his > settings. > > Does anyone know why his Windows XP CD will not recognize existing > installation? Is his motherboard known to have the bad electrolytic > capacitors that fail prematurely? Is there a Windows newsgroup > where I should ask this question? > > Thank you in advance for all replies. > -- > Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy > grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY, > REALLY good. I'll have some of that!"
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