Do I need to reinstall windows if I get a new mobo + CPU

[spanner]

I am going to upgrade my MOBO and cpu from a Fic SD11 + classic athlon 700 to an epox 87ka and athlon 1.2 ghz +256 mb of DDR ram, My question is can I do this without formatting and re installing win2k and still have a stable system? If not can I just re-install win 2k without re formatting so that I do not need to back up all my data and re-install all that software.

 

[kormaster]

How big is your HD? If i were you, I would start fresh for a new system.. have a clean start u know... I would partition my HD and have win2k in one druve and other things u wanna save on the others

 

[gygheyzeus]

You don't have to, although I would strongly recommend that you do. Whenever I do a hardware swap that involves drivers for said hardware, I have a rule that I reformat.

 

[spanner]

Hmm, OK I have another stupid question but How do you partition a hard drive? I guess you need to format it first right? I have a 13 gig udma 33 ibm hard drive(with all my backups on it) running onboard and a 42 gig Ibm 75GXP on a promise card. i suppose once my new mobo comes in I may put both the hard drives on board but I am not sure yet, I am still contemplating how to distribute my 2 hard drives, My cd-rw, my dvd drive and my ls-120 over my onboard ide and the promise ultra 100, I was thinking 75gxp onboard on its own, 13gig HD +ls-120(rarely used) on the other and the 2 cd drives on the promise or vice versa. You can boot off a promise card right?

I really don't mind backing up files as i can use the 13 gig HD but I hate re-installing software, not to mention all of my progress in Unreal tournament and my playlists in playcenter 2

 

[boran]

I do a nasty trick to easy format/partition my HD's .. I use the partitioning tool of my dad's linux disks .. almost every linux install has a very good partitioning tool (MUCH better than fdisk) so I just start the install till after the partitioning and cancel the install after the partitioning ...

 

[SpeedRacer05]

Boot up in dos with a win 98 startup disk, run fdisk, delete any partitions, make whatever partitions you want, set your first partition to active, then format the partitions.

Yes you can boot off of the promise card, I am booting off of the hd that is on my promise card and have no problems.

 

[Zuluwarrior]

If you're doin an 8k7a and 1.2/266........I WOULD reinstall windows, after fdisking
and formatting your drive........For simplicity's sake, I'd drop the promise,
put the 75gxp on ide1 with your other hd as slave, and the burner and dvd on ide2
both of these are u100 on back......if the ls120 is rarely ever used, stick "it" on the
promise, but again, for simplicity, consider getting rid of the ata33 drive and just
partition the ibm if u need a seperate space for something.......it will be another
drive letter anyway and then you have another spot to put the ls120 and not have
another controller card competing for irq etc.

THE FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO THO:

Is move jumper 4 in the middle of your board to make your pci system bus 1/3 multiplier
instead of 2/3.....as the 1.2 requires this due to the 133fsb speed.

Otherwise, you'll have all kinds of weird problems

I spent 4 hours wondering why I couldn't read a cd on a scsi drive, and then i found
out i was chokin my pci scsi card up at 100mhz!!!

DO THAT FIRST

Then upgrade the bios to latest from epox's site
and set fsb to 133 instead of 100 so you're 9x multiplier
will have u running at 1.2 instead of 900mhz


happy camping

 

[chainbolt]

it's not 100% necessary, but recommeded. You can save a lot of time with a clean install, and
a fresh install of the necessary drivers.