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I am trying to upgrade my motherboard from an old ASUS P5A with ALI
chipset and AMD-K6/450 to a GIGABYTE with VIA chipset and Athalon 2800+
and having no luck getting past the point in the restore process where
the COM+ files are being configured. At least that is the text which
displays above the progress bar at the point it hangs.

I have tried to follow the instructions that I found in several articles
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for upgrading hardware and emergency
replacement of hardware from a backup. Basically what I have done is
variations on the following:

1. Ghost the original hard drive to a new disk.
2. Boot from CD using the new motherboard with Ghosted drive as master.
3. Select upgrade existing Windows 2000 installation.
4. Select repair.
5. Answer questions and enter Install Code.
6. Watch the Win2K installer replace files & configure itself.
7. Watch progress bar get about 1/2 way and hang while saying it is
configuring COM+
8. Go back to 1. after making a BIOS or other change and
re-Ghosting the drive.

Anybody have any experience in working through this issue? Any
suggestions? My goal is to not have to reinstall the 30+ applications
that exist on the system as many are web downloads with many updates
that would take forever to replace, so if there is a way to do a clean
Win2K install and then migrate the registry and installed applications,
that would work just as well. I have done a clean Win2K install onto
another drive with the new motherboard and that works just fine!

-Landy