Will changing MB & CPU force me to rebuild my XP Pro Setup

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Scooter9999

In a related thread "CPU Failure?? - Using a K7t266 Pro2-RU M'board" Ive
detailed some HW problem I'm having. May have to replace CPU and
Motherboard.

My biggest concern with doing this is the potential for me then to have to
totally rebuild my XP Pro based software setup (horrible and very time
consuming business) because of all the hooks between the OS and the HW.

When running Win98 in the past I was forced to do this after changing CPU
Mboard etc

Will XP be able to adjust to the change?

What are the issues/solutions/considerations?

I'd really like the fruits of your collective experience?

All advice/comments welcome

Scooter
 
this has been the topic of many discussions, Sometime all goes well when the
boards are similar in chipset and make. OB peripherals are sticky when it
come to loading bunk drivers from another board. By all means try, But the
bottom line is, You should do a repair install or clean.
 
Scooter9999 said:
In a related thread "CPU Failure?? - Using a K7t266 Pro2-RU M'board"
Ive detailed some HW problem I'm having. May have to replace CPU and
Motherboard.

My biggest concern with doing this is the potential for me then to
have to totally rebuild my XP Pro based software setup (horrible and
very time consuming business) because of all the hooks between the OS
and the HW.
Click to expand...

Do a Repair Install as detailed here following the hardware transplant:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
 
XP Home made it from a kt133 to a kt400, but ran much better after I clean
installed it.

You can use bootitng, $30 shareware, to keep your present copy and clean
install alongside it to the point where you want to move from one to the
other.
 
Windows XP should handle it just fine. I went from a VIA 133 chipset to a
NVidia NForce2, and all I did was do a repair install.
 
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