replace mother board on windows 2000 system, how ?

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Mario

Hello,

The motherboard of a windows 2000 system died, I have to replace it.

Can you please tell me what is the proper way to make sure the
existing installed windows 2000 in the disks will recognize the new
motherboard and cpu ?

What are the procedures that I should follow ?

Thanks,

Mario Desiderio
 
When I replaced a mobo with the same mobo, but at a higher level of BIOS, I
did not have to anything but reboot.
 
Greetings --

Normally, unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the
old one (same chipset, IDE controllers, etc), you'll most likely need
to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the
very least (and don't forget to reinstall any service packs and
subsequent hot fixes):

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

What an In-Place Win2K Upgrade Changes and What It Doesn't
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306952

If that fails:

How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q249694&ID=KB;EN-US;Q249694


Bruce Chambers

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The usual problem is the disk drivers, if the chipset on the new board is
not identical, windows won't boot and you'll get an INACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE
bluescreen. You can try a safe mode boot but it rarely works, you'll
probably have to do a repair installation of windows. You shouldn't lose
anything, but reapply any patches & SP's after.
 
Just did a replacement motherboard (different make and
model) because let's face it if the old M/B is older than
9 months good luck finding an exact model. Anyway, the
biggest headache I've run into is getting past the
message "ordinal 212 could not be located in
locwin32.dll". There is no mention of this on the MS
support, so just be warned. This will happen after
running the Windows setup from the CD. Have not been
able to fix this yet.

Jon
 
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