Avoiding an XP reinstall

[oynaz]

Motherboard recently died, and I have bought some new parts from a friend. I keep backups, so I am not in danger of losing any data, but it is a PITA to reinstall everything. I know the Win2K was really difficult to get to accept massive hardware changes, but hopefully WinXP is better.

I have replaced my P4 with an Athlon, and my Radeon 9800 Pro with a Geforce 6600GT. The GFX card is simply a matter of uninstalling the Omega drivers, but which chipset and PSU drivers do I need to uninstall?

 

[cubby1223]

It's a matter of praying. Hook it all up and use the Windows XP cd to boot from and select to do a repair install (different from repairing with the recovery console). Most of the time it works without any trouble. Some of the time it gives you the STOP 7E error on startup. I haven't figured out any way to get around the STOP 7E error yet.

I've done stuff like going from a KT133A to an nForce3 chipset. An i845 to a KT266A chipset. An nForce2 to an i845g chipset. An ATI xpress 200 to an i865g chipset.

But recently tried to go from an i845 to a GeForce 6150 chipset and XP would have none of it.

 

[oldman420]

I suggest uninstalling drivers for the items you want to change out before you reinstall

good luck I say you have about a 5% chance of success

 

[DrGreen2007]

You can do it, but its a pita

different chipset and processor, those are the main things the OS uses with the mobo