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David Perrault
Hi All,
I'm going to upgrade my motherboard (KT266A chipset to nforce 2 400).
Read a lot of things and seems like i'll need to do a 'repair' on my
win xp pro install.
I've seen a few reports saying that they did manage an upgrade without
doing a repair and wanted to check with you all what are the factors
that could mean success?
For example if I do install all the nforce drivers before changing
mobo would that make a difference?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
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From: Eric ([email protected])
Subject: upgrade motherboard/cpu with windows XP already installed
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Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Date: 2002-05-14 15:22:25 PST
I have personally changed out a motherboard and video
card, no problem what so ever. Nothing ever came up
saying that I needed to activate again or anything.
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I'm going to upgrade my motherboard (KT266A chipset to nforce 2 400).
Read a lot of things and seems like i'll need to do a 'repair' on my
win xp pro install.
I've seen a few reports saying that they did manage an upgrade without
doing a repair and wanted to check with you all what are the factors
that could mean success?
For example if I do install all the nforce drivers before changing
mobo would that make a difference?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
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From: Eric ([email protected])
Subject: upgrade motherboard/cpu with windows XP already installed
View: Complete Thread (4 articles)
Original Format
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Date: 2002-05-14 15:22:25 PST
I have personally changed out a motherboard and video
card, no problem what so ever. Nothing ever came up
saying that I needed to activate again or anything.
-----Original Message-----
Have heard various stories about hardware upgrades with XP
already installed as OS. I currently have e-machines P3
600 Mhz with their case and motherboard. Leaves me almost
no options so I want to upgrade to new case, Asus A7S333
motherboard, Athlon XP 1700 and 512 Mb RAM. In general,
can I just take everything out of the old case (sound
card, hard drives, video card, CD ROM, floppy) and plug it
into the new motherboard. I have heard horror stories of
XP wanting you to purchase a "new install" copy of XP,
because it considers this a "new computer." Then again,
have also had people say they did exactly what I described
with no problem at all. XP detects it and off you go.
What's the real scoop? E-mail replies to (e-mail address removed) or
reply to this post.
Thanks tremendously!
Jay
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