Re: Swapping MB

Dewayne Thomas wrote: 
I'm getting ready to upgrade my MB and would like to do it with out
re-installing all the software. The couple of times I have tried this
hasn't turned out too steller, some of the programs were unstable and
the systems never seemed to operate real smooth untill I done a
complete format and reinatalled everything. I seen a couple of posts
some time ago that had some suggestions as to a procedure that might
help but I can't find it now.

I'm running WinXP and will be replacing my A7N8X-E Deluxe with a
A8N-VM, if that has any bearing on the switch. I might be just wishing
for something that will keep me from reinstalling/reconfiguring a
bucket load of programs. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.


I did exactly that upgrade a while ago and it was easy as pie.
I first made sure I had all of the drivers on-hand in advance. I then swapped the boards, booted in VGA mode, installed the new drivers, rebooted, then uninstalled the old video driver. Done.

It might have been tricky if there had been a RAID using the motherboard's controllers, but in this case there were only non-RAIDed PATA hard drives and a PATA DVD burner.
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