Asus P4S800D-X???

[mikk]

Think’in about getting this board and wondering if i have to install
this with a clean hardrive or can i just connect the hardrive from
soyo mboard(OS winxp) to new board? I also have PNY DDR 2700: 1x 512mb
and 2x 256mb will i able to use them all in asus mobo? wondering the
pros and cons of this asus mb for those who have/had them? thanks.

 

[DaveW]

First of all, you realize that the "S" in the P4S800D-X designation means
that the motherboard uses an SIS brand chipset? I would NOT recommend that.
Get an Asus board that uses an Intel chipset so that you avoid the
reliability and timing errors you would otherwise run into.
AND, if you replace the motherboard in a computer whose harddrive had
Windows installed, then you HAVE to reformat the harddrive and do a fresh
install of the OS if you want to avoid nasty Registry errors and data
corruption. Not to mention the failure of the system to boot.

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DaveW

Think'in about getting this board and wondering if i have to install
this with a clean hardrive or can i just connect the hardrive from
soyo mboard(OS winxp) to new board? I also have PNY DDR 2700: 1x 512mb
and 2x 256mb will i able to use them all in asus mobo? wondering the
pros and cons of this asus mb for those who have/had them? thanks.

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[stevem]

First of all, you realize that the "S" in the P4S800D-X designation means
that the motherboard uses an SIS brand chipset? I would NOT recommend
that. Get an Asus board that uses an Intel chipset so that you avoid the
reliability and timing errors you would otherwise run into.
AND, if you replace the motherboard in a computer whose harddrive had
Windows installed, then you HAVE to reformat the harddrive and do a fresh
install of the OS if you want to avoid nasty Registry errors and data
corruption. Not to mention the failure of the system to boot.

<SNIP>

Please ignore above comments; they're simply not true. The standard method
of moving from one chipset to another is to do a Repair install of XP on the
new motherboard, then install the chipset drivers. It's sometimes a good
idea also to remove chipset-specific drivers from the installation before
doing the switch (i.e. replace them with the XP-generic drivers), although
normally the repair installation will sort this out. Any number of us on
this NG have done this; why DaveW persists in giving this mis-information is
a mystery, it serves only to put people off upgrading.
Regards,
Steve.