Will I have to reinstall W2K Pro Sp4 after new MB

[Mike Godett]

I am going to upgrade my MB and CPU. As I recall with W98SE, it would
recognize a new MB as new hardware and no reinstall was necessary. Is
the same true with W2K? I have tons of software on my W2K system and I
hate the thought of having to reinstall Windows and all of the
software. Thanks in advance.

Mike G.

 

[Steve Parry]

I am going to upgrade my MB and CPU. As I recall with W98SE, it would
recognize a new MB as new hardware and no reinstall was necessary. Is
the same true with W2K? I have tons of software on my W2K system and I
hate the thought of having to reinstall Windows and all of the
software. Thanks in advance.

Mike G.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249694

 

[S.C]

Mike,

I did a MB?CPU upgrade a year ago with W2K and just moved all my hardware to
the new MB and on boot up I had to config the HD's and I have had no
problems since.

I might have been lucky but it worked for me and I am going to do another
one here in the next month ...

Steve

 

[TheInformer]

*I am going to upgrade my MB and CPU. As I recall with W98SE, it
would
recognize a new MB as new hardware and no reinstall was necessary.
Is
the same true with W2K? I have tons of software on my W2K system and
I
hate the thought of having to reinstall Windows and all of the
software. Thanks in advance.

Mike G. *

I have been using the same Windows 2000 intallation through probably 4
motherboard changes, hard drive changes, hard drive controller changes,
and many other hardware changes. I have many many programs installed.
Sometimes you will need to run the Windows Emergency Repair thing (via
booting from the Windows CD) to get it to work with a different hard
drive controller, but then all you do is start it up (afterwards), and
then re-install SP4. All your programs and settings will still be
there.

 

[TheInformer]

*I have been using the same Windows 2000 intallation through probably
4 motherboard changes, hard drive changes, hard drive controller
changes, and many other hardware changes. I have many many programs
installed. Sometimes you will need to run the Windows Emergency
Repair thing (via booting from the Windows CD) to get it to work with
a different hard drive controller, but then all you do is start it up
(afterwards), and then re-install SP4. All your programs and settings
will still be there. *

One more note about that: Don't forget to re-install all the Windows
security patches after you re-install SP4. You may also need to
re-upgrade your Internet Explorer and the like.

Also, if things get tricky with the new mobo working, you may need to
try doing the repair with different HALs (Hardware Abstraction Layers).
This is done via some F-key or something at the beginning of the repair
process. Don't give up to easily with getting it to work right, even
when you get blue screens when it tries to start. I have yet to find a
situation where I could not change the hardware and keep running my
good ol' Windows 2000 installation.

 

[Guest]

Well there is no problem with that it exactly the same as in 98, i have
changed The entire machine useing the same HDD, when my CPU and MB burned,
they worked well. And infact the machine was a AD server.

you may have to install drivers for the new MB if neccesary.

Go ahead .