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OUTLAWS DirtGod
10-15-2003, 02:10 PM
Just want to know if anyone has had any problem swaping out motherboards with windows xp.....i dont want to find out after i have changed motherboards that i need to reinstall.... :cool:
JIMINATOR
10-15-2003, 02:29 PM
you may need to do a repair install, should keep all your files & stuff,
assumes you have a regular xp and not a branded one, which likely won't work...
OUTLAWS DirtGod
10-15-2003, 03:55 PM
Thnx jim buying a Athlon 64 this week with new mobo ill make image to dvd before i install
JIMINATOR
10-15-2003, 04:02 PM
cool man, let us know how it goes. :jammin:
Slice
10-15-2003, 04:39 PM
You will most likely have to reinstall winblows. Every mb upgrade I have ever done I had to reinstall. You won't lose your files but some of your programs won't work. Any firewall software or virus software will need to be reinstalled. Some other programs may also need to be reinstalled, like MS Word etc.
Fragetti
10-15-2003, 05:46 PM
The one thing I love about XP is it finds and setup most all your hardware.
I would try it before you do anything. I think it may suprise you. I know this because
I have swopped HD's from one machine to the other and it worked a few differant times :thumbs: Note Raid is a litle tricky only got lucky once
OUTLAWS DirtGod
10-15-2003, 06:58 PM
going to give it a shoot havent done a major upgrade in almost two years :wacko:
ME BIGGD01
10-16-2003, 04:05 AM
are you upgrading from an nforce board and going to nfoce3? are you upgrading from via board to the viakt800? you should be ok but i would suggest a clean install regardless of any upgrade. we all know windows does not get rid of what it's supposed to and in the future you may lose data due to the corruption bug in xp :thumbs:
ME BIGGD01
10-16-2003, 04:11 AM
also, don't be a hump and hold out on us to know what board you are getting :P

i swear i have been holding out due to the price of the chips but it's getting hard because i am a hardware freak. the only thing that really is a great deal is the motherboards which has every feature you could want and also the hypertransport. damn you are not helping me and would like to know how you make out. put me in your msn messenger so we can chat. i would like to give you something ;) to benchmark your systems that most people do not have. i will give it to you aslong as you send me report :thumbs:


msn is BIGGD01@OPTONLINE.NET
merkwannabe
10-16-2003, 04:21 AM
Originally posted by Slice@Oct 15 2003, 09:39 AM
winblows
spelling error.

Perhaps you meant-
1) Wind-owns
2) I like pink
3) Merk shutup
OUTLAWS DirtGod
10-16-2003, 05:22 AM
Getting an Nforce3 board
ME BIGGD01
10-16-2003, 07:33 AM
which brand?
OUTLAWS DirtGod
10-16-2003, 04:50 PM
Gigabyte
Rivers
10-22-2003, 03:20 AM
When I swapped mobo's I didn't have to reinstall anything in Windows although I know I probably should have but I got no problems whatsoever so far and this was in August. :cool: