Motherboard swap question

[Lee M.]

I am going to upgrade my motherboard/CPU. Will my probability of success be
better if I stick with the same chipset manufacturer (in this case VIA) and
CPU brand (AMD)? I don't want to have to do clean install of XP Home.

Thanks.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I am going to upgrade my motherboard/CPU. Will my probability of success be
better if I stick with the same chipset manufacturer (in this case VIA) and
CPU brand (AMD)? I don't want to have to do clean install of XP Home.

Just built an entirely new machine. Cloned the old hard drive,
installed it in the new build, did a repair install.

WORKS FINE.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I am going to upgrade my motherboard/CPU. Will my probability of success be
better if I stick with the same chipset manufacturer (in this case VIA) and
CPU brand (AMD)? I don't want to have to do clean install of XP Home.

Forgot to answer your question: never paid any attention to chipsets
or manufacturer.

 

[Rock]

I am going to upgrade my motherboard/CPU. Will my probability of success
be better if I stick with the same chipset manufacturer (in this case VIA)
and CPU brand (AMD)? I don't want to have to do clean install of XP Home.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I am going to upgrade my motherboard/CPU. Will my probability of success be
better if I stick with the same chipset manufacturer (in this case VIA) and
CPU brand (AMD)? I don't want to have to do clean install of XP Home.

If you change your motherboard, you will almost certainly have to do
at least a repair installation. Only if the new one is virtually
identical to the new one might you not have to.

Whether you want to do a clean reinstallation or not, you should be
prepared for the possibility (have backups, etc.). Although a repair
installation is usually sufficient, sometimes it's not, and a clean
reinstallation is required. The closer your new motherboard is to the
old one (same brand, chipset manufacturer, etc.) the less likely it is
that a clean reinstallation will be required.

Read here: "How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install"
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I am going to upgrade my motherboard/CPU. Will my probability of success be
better if I stick with the same chipset manufacturer (in this case VIA) and
CPU brand (AMD)? I don't want to have to do clean install of XP Home.

Thanks.

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many factory-installed OEM
installations are BIOS-locked to a specific chipset and therefore are
*not* transferable to a new motherboard - check yours before starting),
unless the new motherboard is virtually identical (same chipset, same
IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the one on which the WinXP
installation was originally performed, you'll need to perform a repair
(a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with WinXP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

The "why" is quite simple, really, and has nothing to do with
licensing issues, per se; it's a purely technical matter, at this point.
You've pulled the proverbial hardware rug out from under the OS. (If
you don't like -- or get -- the rug analogy, think of it as picking up a
Cape Cod style home and then setting it down onto a Ranch style
foundation. It just isn't going to fit.) WinXP, like Win2K before it,
is not nearly as "promiscuous" as Win9x when it comes to accepting any
old hardware configuration you throw at it. On installation it
"tailors" itself to the specific hardware found. This is one of the
reasons that the entire WinNT/2K/XP OS family is so much more stable
than the Win9x group.

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This will also probably require re-activation, unless you have a
Volume Licensed version of WinXP Pro installed. If it's been more than
120 days since you last activated that specific Product Key, you'll most
likely be able to activate via the Internet without problem. If it's
been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone call.



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[BillW50]

Forgot to answer your question: never paid any attention to chipsets
or manufacturer.

You don't pay attention to detail from the many messages I read from you
either.