First post, by xjas
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So I guess Prince of Persia 2008 proved too much for my P4/XP games machine after all. After playing fine for some hours yesterday it now refuses to power on. Haven't opened it up to figure out what's wrong yet, could be PSU or mobo itself for all I know. But if it's down I may as well upgrade right? Fortunately I have a Dell Core2 Duo with a Geforce 9800 GTX right here that could easily replace it.
So my options are:
- Swap the HDD from the P4 in, let Windows freak out and boot in safe mode, uninstall all the old drivers and install the new ones
- Install a new HDD, install XP from scratch including downloading all the stupid drivers from Dell, re-install DirectX, VCC runtimes, .net, every game including save games & no-CD patches, blah blah blah holy crap do I not want to do that
Which option do you guys think will be LESS of a pain in the butt?
It's worth mentioning that the P4 has never been on any network, it has no NIC/wifi or peripherals other than its video card, onboard sound & game controller drivers & no esoteric/machine-specific tweaks. It's as barebones as I could make it.
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