Athlon 64 and WinXP

[popman]

I am going into unknown territory here. I Just bought an AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ setup for really cheap with no OS. I am not sure but is XP Pro going to be a problem working with this? That 64 seem like something not quite compatible with XP Pro (that is 32 bit)

[SuperSparks]

You will be able to run XP Pro, in either 32-bit or 64-bit versions without any problems at all.

[popman]

Thanks SS for your encouraging reply! I set everything up took a cloned copy of my SATA HD and tried to run it. Obviously XP did not like the new hardware so I ran the XP SP3 slipstream disk and did an install and when I got to the point of Repair or Fresh install I hit R. It showed me my partition and started to install new files. All good so far...until reboot time and I got a real quick blue screen and a auto reboot then it goes into a loop where it starts and repeats the reboot. I did a fresh install on a new SATA Drive to see if that works and it did without any problems. Now I cannot do a fresh install as I have too musch stuff on the other drive. The other drive is a little older SATA seagate barracuda 7200.10 160gb. So what am I missing?

Hardware configuation is:
mobo: MSI K9N6PGM2
cpu: amd athlon 64 x2+ 3.0 ghz
ram: (2)1mb kingston chips ddr2 pc2-5300 (667mhz)

That is all I have installed now to reduce confusion

[lgbpop]

Do an over-the-top install of XP. XP looks for all the hardware it was installed on and is finicky about changes. Your files, photos, etc. should be untouched.

[popman]

Now when you mean over the top install I guess you are talking about the repair install? That is the only other way to install XP without going fresh...at least that I know of. I did that and the same problem occurs. My last post said that a fresh install went really well. I have 2 sata hd's that I can go back and forth and try it either way and the fresh install works on either drive and I get the same loop on both drives with the "R" install. It should not be that hard.

[Train]

over-the-top install of XP; the repair install are one and the same thing.

over-the-top install was what we did until Microsoft finally came up with the "Repair Install"
So some of are dated.

[popman]

Over the top install is the same as Repair? or is there a different method not on my disk? I think something on my windows it doesn't like for it not to be able to repair it..Is there a way to uninstall SP3? That is probably the problem, I can't even install IE7 on it.

[lgbpop]

Train's right, over-the-top is the same thing as the Repair install option. Remove SP3 through Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs. IE7 is an exercise in frustration when paired with XP; better off using IE6 with XP IMHO.

Not sure if he's right about being dated!