Re: Upgrade mobo without reinstalling all programs?
- From: "Conor" <conor_turton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:00:52 -0000
"geronimo" <Jamesw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ta5cs4d7ng10jh4hcrufrarsl0h8c61gg8@xxxxxxxxxx
I have Windows XP Pro Corp. Windows runs on a 500gb SATA drive. IDon't even need to do that. I changed one for a customer from a XP2000+ on a Via chipset motherboard to an Intel Core Duo on a socket 775 montherboard. The only problem I had was that because it was a USB mouse, I had no mouse until Windows detected the new USB controller.
want to upgrade from an Asrock Athlon 64 X2 mobo I got a year ago to a
Asus M3N mobo of some flavor or another. Or the Foxconn A795A looks
good, and has very favorable buyer reviews on Newegg. But I have
spend so much time installing just about every Windows program known
to man, I am weighing the risk of it no longer running Windows without
reinstall of the OS and everything else. . I have built a number of
systems, but never tried upgrading mobo without installing fresh OS.
Will I be OK if, prior to shut-down for the last time, I go into
device manager and delete SYSTEM DEVICES and anything else related to
on-board devices? THis would make Windows default back to the generic
hardware device drivers, right?
It was simply then a case of installing a graphics and network adapter driver then going and re-activating Windows which I had to do by phone.
XP is very good at detecting changes and sorting itself out.
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Conor
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