MB Upgrade: Gigabyte to Asus--Will This Be A Disaster???

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Planning to upgrade my Gigabyte board (Via KT600 chipset) to an Asus A7V600
(same chipset). The harddrive is a SATA (non RAID) WD Raptor. Supposedly,
just changing the MB will be seamless, but I was just thinking about the
driver for the SATA setup. That's initially loaded from a floppy when you
install Windows XP. How can it be changed when you don't plan to reinstall
XP? Any thoughts.

Randy
 
If you are changing the motherboard you need to reinstall XP if you don't
want Registry errors.
 
Randy said:
Planning to upgrade my Gigabyte board (Via KT600 chipset) to an Asus A7V600
(same chipset). The harddrive is a SATA (non RAID) WD Raptor. Supposedly,
just changing the MB will be seamless, but I was just thinking about the
driver for the SATA setup. That's initially loaded from a floppy when you
install Windows XP. How can it be changed when you don't plan to reinstall
XP? Any thoughts.

Randy
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I just changed an MSI board for an ASUS board, different chipsets, the
works. When i rebooted i had the XP cd in, and booted from the cd. then i
selected the reinstall option, and it proceeded as per normal installs, but
i had to reactivate. The problem with this was that i could not even get
into Windows to start the internet connection, so had to activate over the
phone. No probs there, and the poota runs without any problems, and without
having had to reinstall all the software. Quite a suprise.
 
I'm curious. Why switch from a Gigabyte to an ASUS with the same chipset? I
don't really think of that as an upgrade.
 
Aah, 'tis a tale of woe...
The PS on my A7V133 with 1333 cpu went pop, and I was trying to find out
which other components were taken out with it, as replacing the PS resulted
in nothing.
So i was swapping bits - agp, cpu - to the MSI 266 with 1700+, and in the
process the clamp holding the HS snapped, causing the screwdriver to scrape
off the top of a tiny component called C146. Rats, one dead MSI board. It
also turned out that the 1333 was dead too.
I had a spare Duron 850, so i swapped that into the A7V, & put the lot into
the former MSI box. Then I bought an A7V8X-X, cause it was the only ASUS
board I could get on a Saturday arvo, and filched the 1700+ for it. I do a
bit of 3D cad work, and my design software caused the Duron a bit of
trouble.
Anyoldhoo, I didn't want the risk of losing stuff on a reinstall of XP, so I
tried to keep as many of the board components reasonably similar.
As it turns out, with the MSI -> A7V set it didn't matter.
Oh well, it also gave me an excuse to buy a Barton 2500+ to go with the
8X-X!
Yeah, as "upgrades" go, i'm pretty annoyed, that MSI board was a goody.
 
I've just done an Asus to GB mobo change under XP
As you have realised you need the SATA drivers of the new mobo on a floppy.
Swap everything over. Boot up and boot from CD. Press f6 at the right time
and load the SATA drivers at the right point. Go through what is
effectively a repair install; it doesn't take that long as it's quite
intelligent.
However there is soe overwritting; I had to repatch about 25Mb of stuff
afterwards that had been previously patched. Other than that no worries,
that was two weeks ago. I don't subscribe to the theory that you have to
clean install but you do have do a repair install.
 
So i was swapping bits - agp, cpu - to the MSI 266 with 1700+, and in the
process the clamp holding the HS snapped, causing the screwdriver to scrape
off the top of a tiny component called C146. Rats, one dead MSI board. It
also turned out that the 1333 was dead too.
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There was just a previous post that mentioned the Dr Thermal Heat sink that
incorporated a ZIF like device to secure the HSF to the socket. Seems like a
great idea. I'm actually pretty lucky I haven't popped a hole clean through
any of my mother boards.
 
Mike Gorman said:
There was just a previous post that mentioned the Dr Thermal Heat sink that
incorporated a ZIF like device to secure the HSF to the socket. Seems like a
great idea. I'm actually pretty lucky I haven't popped a hole clean through
any of my mother boards.
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Thanks for the tip, i'll go a-googlin.
It still annoys me that for all the warnings plastered across these
components about sensitivity to shock, static, blah blah blah, that i have
to put so much force with a bloody screwdriver into it >:(
 
Have a sale for the Gigabyte. Don't need some of its features. Like the
fan control of the Asus.
 
| Planning to upgrade my Gigabyte board (Via KT600 chipset) to an Asus
A7V600
| (same chipset). The harddrive is a SATA (non RAID) WD Raptor.
Supposedly,
| just changing the MB will be seamless, but I was just thinking about
the
| driver for the SATA setup. That's initially loaded from a floppy
when you
| install Windows XP. How can it be changed when you don't plan to
reinstall
| XP? Any thoughts.
|
| Randy
|

Of primary concern would be the IRQ BIOS routing table of the 2
different mobos, if any differences exist, your xp install might not
work, so the reinstall of XP, as suggested by others, is highly
recommended.
 
I'm curious. Why switch from a Gigabyte to an ASUS with the same chipset?
I
don't really think of that as an upgrade.
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For me, it would be Gigabyte's strange and recent omission of the CPU heat
sink mounting holes, along with their refusal to use the now-standard nine
ATX mounting holes.
 
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