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    So... anyone managed to change a motherboard without reinstaling XP?

    I couldn´t resist ordering a Soltek 75FRN2-L for a great price of ~80€. It´s getting great reviews for standing up to the big boys performance on features and performance for a lower price. And it does have the C1 nForce2 rev, that Nvidia smartly renamed to ultra 400, being 400mhz fsb certified.

    I do love my ECS K7S5A and it served me well for almost 2 years, and its replacement is mainly to keep the cost-effective upgrade path clear, as I reached the end of the line for the K7S5A with a XP2400+. I was thinking to go with a 166+ fsb for now, that my 2x256 crucial PC2100 should take at ease and later going with a Barton 3500+ or something like that, plus a Gb of good DDR3200.

    But I certainly don´t feel like, or have too much time to reinstall XP from scratch. Simply too much stuff to backup and redo. It´s also been almost 2 years since my last reinstall, but everything is still so stable and smooth that I don´t really feel like reinstalling all the stuff again.

    So, any advices on what to to? I´ve been told that an easy way was to simply change the hardware and reboot, put on XP cd and choose "repair", and it´ll do the job for you. It´s this true?

    Thanks
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    hehehe.

    good luck
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    • #3
      The way I have found is to select install, not repair. When it asks where to install it, select the same partition. It will then say "Another instance found, do you wish to repair it?"
      Say yes to that, and it redetects your hardware, but leaves all your settings, and programs installed. You will need to reapply service pack 1 after you do this however.
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      • #4
        Yes and No.
        I think the best way to go is sysprep as others have advised me to do on this forum in the past.
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        • #5
          Worked just fine for me twice, once from a P3B-F to a KT400, and again from a KT133 to a Nforce 2.
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          • #6
            uhm, the safest way is to change the driver for the IDE controller to "Standard PCI IDE controller", shutdown, swap boards, boot up and let XP find all new stuff and go WPA crazy :P
            If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Byock
              Worked just fine for me twice, once from a P3B-F to a KT400, and again from a KT133 to a Nforce 2.
              You probably should format and reinstall.

              I switched XP from a KT133A to a SiS745. It worked, but I had some audio glitches with my Audigy. Also, I didn't get APIC working until I did the format.

              So yeah, the machine will work, but if you're upgrading for performance, then not formatting will be a waste of some of your money.
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              • #8
                I have!!! I have!!!

                I went from a P3B-F (440bx chipset) to a A7V133 (KT133A chipset) WITHOUT having to re-install anything, using WinME.

                Yay for me!

                Then my RAM failed causing me to format many O' times.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by ZokesPro
                  I have!!! I have!!!

                  I went from a P3B-F (440bx chipset) to a A7V133 (KT133A chipset) WITHOUT having to re-install anything, using WinME.

                  Yay for me!

                  Then my RAM failed causing me to format many O' times.
                  The odd part is that you <B>can</B> do it just fine with Win9x, but NOT with XP.
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                  • #10
                    Yes it was easy with w9x, just delete enum in the registry and you're set.

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                    • #11
                      You probably should format and reinstall.
                      Yes I know and I´ll probably will do it sooner or later, but as I said I´m really a bit busy on this days and even assembling the hardware will be very time consuming. I´m looking for a quick way to get a working system without have to waste a full day reinstalling and configuring all again.

                      uhm, the safest way is to change the driver for the IDE controller to "Standard PCI IDE controller", shutdown, swap boards, boot up and let XP find all new stuff and go WPA crazy :P
                      Yes that´s interesting. I´ll try it first.

                      The way I have found is to select install, not repair. When it asks where to install it, select the same partition. It will then say "Another instance found, do you wish to repair it?"
                      Good tip also. I´ll try it if the above doesn´t work.
                      Anyway, I´ll get the board tomorrow or the other day, so I still have some time to decide what to do.

                      While we´re at it what do you think about this Soltek motherboard? Shouldn´t I be so cheap and buy something more MSI or Asus like?
                      Last edited by Nuno; 16 June 2003, 12:45.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Wombat
                        The odd part is that you <B>can</B> do it just fine with Win9x, but NOT with XP.
                        Thats because of W2K and XP's inability to recognise "new" idecontrollers on the fly during boot procces
                        (It is posible that the same thing is for erlier NT's also but i have NFI )
                        If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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                        • #13
                          Read this thread over at Ars:

                          http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=77909774&m=1400925745


                          I used it to change motherboards on an Windows 2000 system. They were similar motherboards (both 815 chipsets), but it is a pretty good process to follow.
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                          • #14
                            Read this thread over at Ars:

                            http://arstechnica.infopop.net/Open...74&m=1400925745


                            I used it to change motherboards on an Windows 2000 system. They were similar motherboards (both 815 chipsets), but it is a pretty good process to follow.
                            That´s excellent. It´s simple and it seems to have a high rate of success. Technoid already started to suggest something similar.

                            And I liked that set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, exchanging motherboards or not, it allowed to see how much garbage I´ve got from 2 years of use... I did have around 30+ monitor entries, one for each video card driver install, I guess (this system already survived a KyroII, a Ti4400 and now a Radeon 9700).

                            I´ll try this one first.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Byock
                              Worked just fine for me twice, once from a P3B-F to a KT400, and again from a KT133 to a Nforce 2.
                              *cough cough* But perhaps that's why Rise of Nations would CHOKE on that PC and slow all the rest of us down......

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