Installing new Motherboard

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Just Wondering

Well, I have decided to swap motherboards whicch has brought me here again
concerning the switch.

In switching the mainboards, will I have to reinstall my operating system
(XP), or should the new system boot up fine after the different board is
installed.

I am think that the MB drivers will be different, since it is going to be a
different brand from what I am using now, so some of the drivers will not
install.

Will uninstalling all the MB drivers fix that???

Thanks
 
Go to Start>Run type: regedit. Select
HKey_Local_Machine\System\Current Control Set\Enum Delete the Enum
Folder. That has most of your old drivers.
 
Just said:
Well, I have decided to swap motherboards whicch has brought me here
again concerning the switch.

In switching the mainboards, will I have to reinstall my operating
system (XP), or should the new system boot up fine after the
different board is installed.

I am think that the MB drivers will be different, since it is going
to be a different brand from what I am using now, so some of the
drivers will not install.

Will uninstalling all the MB drivers fix that???

Thanks
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Power your system down. Replace the motherboard. Boot from the Windows XP CD
and perform an Repair Install as detailed here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
 
Its just foolish not to back up everything first on a motherboard change and
since you have to do that just reinstall windows.

Xp is not perfect and not doing a clean install may come back to haunt you.

Lane
 
Thanks Cari, think that might be be the best, chipsets are differnet, going
from SIS to Intel
Cari said:
Unless the chipsets are exactly the same, you should really do a repair
installation XP.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];315341
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP

You will have to reinstall SP1 and any other updates since SP1, but your
documents, other programs, files, folders, MP3s, AVIs, etc should all remain
intact.

Cari
www.coribright.com


Just Wondering said:
Well, I have decided to swap motherboards whicch has brought me here again
concerning the switch.

In switching the mainboards, will I have to reinstall my operating system
(XP), or should the new system boot up fine after the different board is
installed.

I am think that the MB drivers will be different, since it is going to
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be
a
different brand from what I am using now, so some of the drivers will not
install.

Will uninstalling all the MB drivers fix that???

Thanks
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