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switching motherboards
Name: netskimmer Date: December 11, 2003 at 11:37:04 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro SP1 CPU/Ram: 1.1GHz Athlon / 512Mbs SD
Comment:
If I swithch my motherboard and cpu should I reinstall WinXP?
Name: dw226 Date: December 11, 2003 at 11:46:29 Pacific
Reply:
Good question, I wouldn't think so as I think that XP would just simply be able to detect the changed settings, but maybe you do. I'm looking forward to an answer for that myself.
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Response Number 2
Name: -pippo- Date: December 11, 2003 at 12:06:30 Pacific
Reply:
go here http://www.computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/19776.html
I hope it helps!
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Response Number 3
Name: Netskimmer Date: December 11, 2003 at 12:19:21 Pacific
Reply:
pippo, the link you sent me too said that you could do it without complete reinstall but it would double the registry size, so they recommended a clean install. could you run a registry cleaner/maintenance utility to remove old unused registry entries?
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Response Number 4
Name: JB Date: December 11, 2003 at 13:09:54 Pacific
Reply:
Netskimmer I just went through a simlar situation. I upgrade cpu, memory and motherboard. Took my hard drive with Win xp and installed it into the system. The computer would not boot up. I had no choice but to reformat hard disk and reinstall windows xp. Make sure you create a back up if you have important information you don't want to lose.
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Response Number 5
Name: Netskimmer Date: December 11, 2003 at 13:21:29 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks JB
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Response Number 6
Name: RF85 Date: December 11, 2003 at 16:33:47 Pacific
Reply:
you dont have install windows xp again if the motherboard your changing has the same chipset, xp will just detect the new hardware of the mobo. i just did this 3 days ago and the computer is working great. just make sure you install the drivers that came with the mobo.
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