Changing To Gigabyte Motherboard Question?

[Breck Fontaine]

Hello,

I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but
still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the
new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What
drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no
one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to.
Any advise would be appreciated as always.

Thank you!

 

[Breck Fontaine]

Hello,

I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but
still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the
new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What
drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no
one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to.
Any advise would be appreciated as always.

Thank you!

I should have mentioned that the hard drive has my Windows XP
operating system and Biostar M7NCD motherboard drivers on it.

 

[beenthere]

Hello,

I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but
still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the
new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What
drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no
one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to.
Any advise would be appreciated as always.

Thank you!

Probably have to re-activate XP with M$.

 

[Kenny]

Shouldn't have to reactivate XP, just run a "repair" from XP CD.
Don't delete any drivers, after the "repair" just install the m/b drivers
for the Gigabyte.
I've recently just done this with the same m/b and an Athlon 64 3200.

 

[kony]

Hello,

I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but
still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the
new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What
drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no
one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to.
Any advise would be appreciated as always.

Thank you!

In Add/remove programs, the "nVidia Drivers" entry (might
vary slightly in it's wording from one version of the
drivers to the next), should be remoevd.

When you click the Change/Remove button, a special nVidia
box should pop up to select what you want to change. Remove
ALL drivers including display. This should be the last
thing you do before pulling the drive out, don't then boot
the system again to that motherboard.

 

[DaveW]

WHENEVER you change the motherboard in a system where a version of Windows
was the OS on the harddrive, then after changing the motherboard you MUST
reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you can
look forward to Registry errors and data corruption on an ongoing basis.

 

[kony]

WHENEVER you change the motherboard in a system where a version of Windows
was the OS on the harddrive, then after changing the motherboard you MUST
reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you can
look forward to Registry errors and data corruption on an ongoing basis.

For laughs, do a Google search to see how many times DaveW
has made this false statement, how many times others have
corrected it, and how nobody has ever come back and claimed
they had "registry errors and data corruption" as a result.
At worst, windows doesn't finish loading... usually due to
not having the driver controller identified and a driver for
it present. Google will show how to overcome this.

 

[Breck Fontaine]

Thank you for everyone's help. I will try to remove the drivers before
I unplug everything. In worse case scenario if needed I will reformat
and reinstall Windows XP. I never tried to move the OS and close to
160 programs before. I post back in a week or so if anyone is
interested.

Thanks again!

 

[Breck Fontaine]

Thanks for everyones help. I have it built and all I did was delete
the previuos chipset drivers. You were correct Kony! All I have to do
is call Microsoft to reactivate my Windows XP, I have 3 days to do so.

Thanks again!