mobo upgrade

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Hi,

I'm just about to upgrade my motherboard from via
chipset to a nvidia2 one ,now im thinking about just
uninstalling all my via chipset drivers also uninstalling
all my hardware and then replacing my motherboard,would
this be a good idea.Only i don't want to reformat and
reinstall WinXPpro

cheers

ian
 
I'm just about to upgrade my motherboard from via
chipset to a nvidia2 one ,now im thinking about just
uninstalling all my via chipset drivers also uninstalling
all my hardware and then replacing my motherboard,would
this be a good idea.Only i don't want to reformat and
reinstall WinXPpro
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As someone else suggested, a repair install is at least worth a try. In my
case, the results were acceptable but not perfect. I lived with it until I
installed a new hard drive and replaced my DVD drives. The accumulated
weight of all these changes caused WinXP's system restore program to freak
out. (It couldn't make any restore points.) So I ended up backing up all my
files and then deleting the WinXP partition and reformatting the HD. The
resulting new installation went off without a hitch and my WinXP is as clean
as a whistle and purring like a contented cat.

Doing all the WinXP patches and upgrades and reinstalling all my software
did take me two days but you have to redo the patches and upgrades anyhow
when you do a reinstallation so that time lost doing that doesn't really
count.

Try a reinstallation and see if it works. If it doesn't, it's clean install
time.
 
ian said:
Hi,

I'm just about to upgrade my motherboard from via
chipset to a nvidia2 one ,now im thinking about just
uninstalling all my via chipset drivers also uninstalling
all my hardware and then replacing my motherboard,would
this be a good idea.Only i don't want to reformat and
reinstall WinXPpro
Click to expand...

See http://michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html for detailed
instructions on how to to this.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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Greetings --

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many OEM licenses are not
transferable to a new motherboard), unless your motherboard is
virtually identical (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS
version, etc.) to the one on which the other WinXP installation was
originally performed, you'll need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place
upgrade) installation, at the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This will also require re-activation, unless you have a Volume
Licensed version of WinXP Pro installed. If it's been more than 120
days since you last activated that specific Product Key, you'll most
likely be able to activate via the internet without problem. If it's
been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone call.


Bruce Chambers

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