Big Hardware Upgrade in XP

[jtzou]

Hey, I'm helping my gf upgrade her computer from a P3 450 or something to a P4 system. The only thing that's staying in the computer from its present state are the drives. I've had problems doing such changes in the past where I pretty much need to reinstall the OS. Is there anyway to avoid all that? The thing is, in W2k, I can usually get by with doing a repair, and I'm not a huge XP person, but I've seen my roommate unable to do repairs with XP, where you MUST have a ASR disk or reinstall, no easy repairing. Countdown of about just under 2 days til the upgrade. Would like feedback as soon as possible.

 

[Abzstrak]

save the hastle and reload the system, otherwise use sysprep

 

[Fern]

Since you're changing the mobo, the chipset drivers are a problem. You'll have all the old ones in there with the new ones. When changing mobo's I wipe the drives and start over with a fresh install to avoid driver conflicts.

Some prefer not too. So here's a link to a guide on how to change mobo's w/o a reformat/reinstall linky. One look at that article, and I knew reformatting was for me.