Upgrade Motherboard

you'll be in for a world of hurt in my opinion, it would be easier to reinstall from scratch on the main drive, load all updates, & misc sfw. (be sure to backup any data on the main drive to one of the others)

also newer systems have probably incorporated the IDE 133 & SATA 150 as well as usb2 & firewire so you may not need those excess pci cards.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/en-us    stop error after moving xp hard disk to another pc
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694/en-us    info - moving xp to a different pc
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824125/en-us    how to replace mobo for 2k, xp, 2k3 svr
http://65.24.134.81/KipSolutions/MovingXPNewMotherboard/MovingXP.htm
http://www.theeldergeek.com/replace_motherboard.htm
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

you can try the PC mover :
http://www.laplink.com/pcmover/pcmover.html

You will have many fewer problems if you just back up the data and perfom a clean installation

. . and spend much less time overall . .

b3circles, plz provide feedback so we can know what you've tried & the results, so we can further assist you.

Hello and thanks for the responses.

At present I'm waiting for all of the components to arrive.  Here is a list:

ASUS Crosshair AM2 nforce 599 mobo
AMD A64 X2 4200+ cpu
OCZ 1GBx2 DDR2 800 dual channel mem
PNY GF7600GT cheapo video card (I'm not into gaming)
Samsung lcd monitor
and miscellaneous of; Artic Silver 5 and Artic Ceramique thermal grease; Zalman CNPS 9500 AM2 heat-sink/fan.

The Artic and Zalman as I don't know for sure what will arrive with the cpu.  If it has a heat-sink, will I want to use it?  Next if it has a heat pad will I want to use it or go with a grease and if so whether the conductive Silver 5 or non-conductive Ceramique?  I believe AMD promotes the utilization of a pad and not grease but I'd rather have it all here.  The added expense for those items is small in relation to holding up the project.

The responses are ALL appreciated and I haven't decided for sure which path to take.  I trade equities, commodities, etc. during the day and research at night, so until the end of today and all updates and backups have been performed, I'll keep it all on a back burner.  Then come Saturday (and hopefully the last of it arrives by tonight) I've advised all to leave the house and take a weekend vacation.  I'm hoping to move this system into the office, and add another monitor, and with the two other systems, be able to utilize four screens. Once that's accomplished I'll just replace this current system with a new cheapo which of course will be a new clean install - a simple build, and flip the switch.

Thanks again and I will update hopefully by the end of this weekend.

Well the upgrade turned into a new installation not because of procedures, but due to hardware problems.  Let me explain.  To explain the time lag, I had to leave town and just returned today.  I had prepared for the upgrade and was awaiting the components.  They arrived on a Friday afternoon.  I had far to much to do wrapping the weeks work and performing scans, backups, etc.  Saturday I began the hardware dis and assembly process.  My first recommendation is this - STOP your assembly at mobo, cpu, memory, video card and of course keyboard (don't even worry about mouse) and monitor.  Why you ask (some are already chuckling to themselves)?  The brand new mobo bios was no good - stuck in a loop requesting a flashing, accepting it as good and asking again.  Contacted ASUS.  In my situation I had to do this on a weekend.  I needed to be back up Monday.  Next recommendation, UNLESS you have to DON'T do this on a weekend.  The upgrade bios department is open M-F.  Oki doki, reassemble the old and forget the upgrade.  Acquire case, extra disks, etc. required for a new machine.  Fire the old up and it still works.  Put it back in office.  If you want you can quit reading here, but there is more.

ASUS, at their expense, FEDEX overnight the bios chip.  Arrives on schedule.  Assembled up to minimum point.  This time nothing on screen.  Now here is where I am glad I got the Crosshair.  It has a single line lcd screen on the output side of the board.  It had stopped at Det Mem.  Now here I was confused.  If the memory was bad now why wasn't it before - why did the screen display work with the bad bios.  Contact ASUS - continue case number.  The new bios has changed.  First it checks cpu, then mem, then video (I thought that was how it has always been - oh well it's their product) .  The display wouldn't work as the bios couldn't pass the memory.  Gave them my OCZ memory part number and was told - hey that won't work with AMD or the Crosshair.  In my defense - ASUS' qualified vendor link wouldn't work so I called OCZ who said they had been receiving similar calls for many days as the ASUS QV link wasn't working.  They provided me with what would work.

Busy day on Tuesday and research that night and the rest of the week didn't look better.  Friday night made a 200 mile round trip to pick up some Corsair.  Pop it in Sat am - and bingo bango bongo right into bios setup.  Assemble remainder of components as a non raid system with four sata's three at 320MB and one at 300MB.  Install new XP Pro - update it.  Begin restore of some data from the first system.  Bam - delayed write failed on disk #3 (a 320).  Take it out of system - no errors.  Put it back it where it was #3 (#1 320, #2 320, #3 320, #4 300).  Here we go again write fail.  Well it's new enough for warranty.  200 mile roundtrip - new 320MB.  Put it in #3 - this is getting old and probably not a disk hardware error but delayed write failure.  Move this baby all over the board - six possibilities - to no avail.  Long story short and now I believe in extraterrestrials because someone is playing with me, if I install the disks as follows there are absolutely NO problems:  #1 320, #2 320, #3 300 and #4 320 - and remember raid is NOT installed - just four sata disks.  Any way it's been running multiple apps and screens and not skipping a beat.  Tell that one to your grandchildren.  ASUS no help on this one - I set up my own truth table and proceeded through the hard disk configurations.

Picked up a Visiontek THMCE550 TV tuner card and MCE 2005 and will transform the old one into a recorder only.  With the Visiontek utilizing ATI's 550 hardware powered encoding, it should have no problem just writing the Mpeg2 files which will be transferred to more powerful machines for editing and burning.

Well sorry it didn't work as planned.  Was unable to test any upgrade procedures but sure spent a LOT of time setting up a new one.

>>   there are absolutely NO problems:  #1 320, #2 320, #3 300 and #4 320  <<  is there a disk with the transfer rate limited?
for the rest - i'm glad i was'nt in your shoes there - so much problems !  :-))