BBHHI - sadly, you're missing the Big Picture. :-( Pls don't kill the
messenger, etc.
It ain't simple to move a W2k system to a new mobo. There's tons of
traffic on the subject in these NGs (search for subjects including 'new
motherboard'). Advice uniformly points to the MS Knowledgebase's several
articles on the subject. You'll probably save yourself some grief and
eyestrain just doing a fresh W2k install. (Check the KB first; I think
there may be a way to run a repair that might pull you through. Or might
not.) Sorry for the imprecision, best I can do.
W2k really ties itself very tightly to mobo drivers and attributes, much
more so than NT4 and any MS predecessors ever dreamed of. Maybe somehow
that's the price of great stability.