Swapping mobo's without having to do a fresh XP install

[Mr. Smith]

Morning peeps.

Well, I did the regedit thing, I swapped the mobo's around aaaaaand... It boots up, doesn't detect the wireless for the mouse/keyboard and sticks at the splash screen 'icfx3200' with error '50' on the mobo display...

I looked all over the house for an old school keyboard but due to all the building work we've been doing I think all the old kit got binned!

So I figured screw it, clean install, xp goes in, rested... Same thing.

Need to find an old keyboard - no idea what error code 50 is at it's not in the manual.

 

[FarFarAway]

Uncheck Halt on all errors, including keyboard"?

That usually works for me.

 

[Mr. Smith]

Thanks for the PM and reply matey. I'll have to dig up an old keyboard as I can't do anything/progress past the post... Looks like I'll be up in the loft tonight

 

[TJS]

Thanks for the link here, Mr. Smith, after doing too many Windows installs I'm sick of it too...

Kempez: Could you elaborate on what you said about having your prog's/.exe's in storage for when you want/need to reinstall Windows. XMS's regedit route sounds good, but I'd like something that doesn't have a possibility of going afoul (no matter how small that chance may be).

TJS

 

[FarFarAway]

What I do is anything I can put on my storage partition I stick in a backup folder

That's program .exe's basically, some patches and other useful stuff like DirectX, BIOS files and nVidia drivers

Mine is 11gb atm

I never let windows take the whole physical drive up - usually giving it 25-30gb space and leaving the rest for data.

Also I try to install most of the programs I use in the storage or gaming drive so I hopefully won't have to re-install them