Upgrading Motherboard

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Has anyone successfully upgraded their motherboard,
without having to reinstall 'XP....I'm getting ready to
attempt...and can use all your help. Thanks!
 
no, you can do a direct swap with identical mobo, cpu, etc,
but an upgrade will require new drivers to work properly and
many changes will prevent booting at all, such as going from
Intel to AMD.



| Has anyone successfully upgraded their motherboard,
| without having to reinstall 'XP....I'm getting ready to
| attempt...and can use all your help. Thanks!
 
kimeni said:
Has anyone successfully upgraded their motherboard,
without having to reinstall 'XP....I'm getting ready to
attempt...and can use all your help. Thanks!
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At the very least you'll have to do a "repair" installation.

My experience with replacing a motherboard and doing a repair installation
is that a reformat and completely new installation is to be preferred.

YMMV.
 
Greetings --

Normally, and assuming either a retail license or a generic
(non-branded) OEM license, unless the new motherboard is virtually
identical to the old one (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same
BIOS version, etc.), 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

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


Bruce Chambers

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my experience:
via chipset to via chipset..ok
via chipset to nforce chipset..total failure
 
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