CPU - Mobo Upgrade

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I'm considering upgrading a PC, that presently has an Intel 440 BX mobo and
a Celeron 1000, to an nForce2 mobo and an Athlon 2600. Can these be swapped
out without having to reinstall the OS? (WinXP Pro). It has taken quite a
while to get all of the apps configured, is a fresh install absolutely
necessary? Any success stories? Thanks in advance.
 
Tim said:
I'm considering upgrading a PC, that presently has an Intel 440 BX mobo and
a Celeron 1000, to an nForce2 mobo and an Athlon 2600. Can these be swapped
out without having to reinstall the OS? (WinXP Pro). It has taken quite a
while to get all of the apps configured, is a fresh install absolutely
necessary? Any success stories? Thanks in advance.
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You might get away with it, you might not. If you remove the existing
drivers first through control panel and then shut down and swap the board,
you might be able just to do a repair install of XP.
Personally, I would just reinstall from scratch. Tedious, I know, but the
end result will be better.

HTH
SteveH
 
SteveH said:
You might get away with it, you might not. If you remove the existing
drivers first through control panel and then shut down and swap the board,
you might be able just to do a repair install of XP.
Personally, I would just reinstall from scratch. Tedious, I know, but the
end result will be better.

HTH
SteveH
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Don't need to remove anything first. XP will redetect the hardware on the
'upgrade', or 'repair', depending on how you get into setup.
 
I upgraded from a Abit BH6 with a P3 500 to a A7V333 with a AMD
XP2000.

I tried to just swap the stuff over, but XP was constantly crashing
and trying a repair didnt help at all.

I would do the full reinstall of XP. If you can then do it on a new
HDD and then plug your old HDD as a slave afterwards. Then you can
copy over key files at your leisure.

Harry
 
I'm considering upgrading a PC, that presently has an Intel 440 BX mobo and
a Celeron 1000, to an nForce2 mobo and an Athlon 2600. Can these be swapped
out without having to reinstall the OS? (WinXP Pro). It has taken quite a
while to get all of the apps configured, is a fresh install absolutely
necessary? Any success stories? Thanks in advance.
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You will probable have to do at minimum a repair install of the OS.
 
If you change the motherboard in a computer system, then you MUST reformat
the harddrive and do a fresh install of Windows if you want to avoid nasty
ongoing Registry errors. A word to the wise.
 
DaveW said:
If you change the motherboard in a computer system, then you MUST reformat
the harddrive and do a fresh install of Windows if you want to avoid nasty
ongoing Registry errors. A word to the wise.
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I do it all the time and never have any registry errors, 'nasty',
'ongoing', or otherwise.
 
Thanks for the replies everyone. Any suggestions for a good nForce2 mobo?
I'm not planning on overclocking, just looking for a stable, reliable board.
 
David said:
I do it all the time and never have any registry errors, 'nasty',
'ongoing', or otherwise.
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Last time I tried my system wouldn't boot. Not even in safe or VGA mode.
 
Paul said:
Last time I tried my system wouldn't boot. Not even in safe or VGA mode.
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Well, since I didn't see it I can't say for sure what went wrong but one
common problem is not F6'ing in a needed driver during the reinstall/repair.
 
Abit An7 or NF7
I installed an AN7 , had a few bumps , post 90 code
but a bare bones set up and a few rubber washers from home depot have this
board running just great
 
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