Swapping 2 Processor Motherboard for a New Single Processor Motherboard

[Don]

I am beginning to have some issues with the current motherboard in my
system. It is a two processor ASUS P2BDS (yes, and oldie - but it has
treated me well). I would really like to swap motherboards and avoid
building up my system from scratch, but all the boards I ma looking at are
single (uni) processor. If I recall correctly, when Win2000 installs, it
loads a different kernel for SMP systems as compared to single processor
systems. Will the SMP kernel just revert to a "single processor"
configuration? Or will I need to somehow install the uniprocessor kernel?

Undoubtedly there will be a couple of rough edges in terms of doing a
motherboard swap, but is it even possible going from a 2 processor system to
a uniprocessor? Reloading all my software from scratch is just not really
appealing.

Any comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Don

 

[philo]

I am beginning to have some issues with the current motherboard in my
system. It is a two processor ASUS P2BDS (yes, and oldie - but it has
treated me well). I would really like to swap motherboards and avoid
building up my system from scratch, but all the boards I ma looking at are
single (uni) processor. If I recall correctly, when Win2000 installs, it
loads a different kernel for SMP systems as compared to single processor
systems. Will the SMP kernel just revert to a "single processor"
configuration? Or will I need to somehow install the uniprocessor kernel?

Undoubtedly there will be a couple of rough edges in terms of doing a
motherboard swap, but is it even possible going from a 2 processor system to
a uniprocessor? Reloading all my software from scratch is just not really
appealing.

Any comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Don

First...back up all your data...

When you get your new mobo better plan on doing a repair installation...
irrespective of the cpu...a win2k generally requires a repair install with
new hardware...
though sysprep might do the job