Re: Changing motherboards


"Conor" <conor_turton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <7228evFnv0dcU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard says...


If I do this, I'll be sorted won't I? Especially since I'm replacing with
the sanme board but with a somewhat faster CPU. All BIOS stuff taken care
of
surely.

In my experience, all you do is shut down the computer, change the
motherboard and fire it up again. It goes through all the hardware
detection. Beware that if you use a USB mouse/keyboard, it may not find
it the first few minutes as it autodetects the USB controller.

The last one I did was Athlon XP2000 on VIA chipset motherboard to
Intel P$ on Intel 865 chipset motherboard so it was a hell of a change.

If you're changing like for like board, there's no need to do anything.
--
Conor

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Yep. I got another HDD and installed XP on the 500Mhz mboard. Then just to
see what would happen, I used that HDD with the 350Mhz mboard. It simply
reconfigured itself thru the add hardware wizard.

Later today I'll get the 500Mhz board, fit it with the cards in the 350Mhz
mboard, put it into my regular PC then turn on using my regular HDD. It will
simply detect the different CPU, just like XP did with my experiment. Same
Pentium CPU's basically, except one is 350 Mhz, the newly acquired 500 Mhz.
Really easay for XP to deal with.


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