Do i Re-install OS when installing a new motherboard?

[DaviDaVinci]

Question in Title.

 

[Animal -OCXL-]

You dont HAVE to, but most certainly you will have stability problems if you dont.

My advice:


C:\format c:

 

[osage]

Highly recommended that you reinstall.

 

[Boonesmi]

as was said above.. its best to do a fresh install

but... if you use win98 its very easy to just swap motherboards (just go into regedit and delete the "enum" directory, shut down and swap boards, then when you boot up your system will redetect all your motherboard hardware)

if you use win2k or winxp that doesnt work very well

 

[KouklatheCat]

I have had only one board that did not throw a hissy fit. I went from a board with a VIA chipset to another board with a VIA chipset. I have gone from same chipset board to same chipset before, I got really lucky this time. I would up F-Disking and reinstalling a week later just because. If your new board doesn't flip out now it will down the road an most likely at an inconvenient time.

 

[MiklosMillora]

It is better to re-install your OS for compatability issues. But, if you insist make sure you deinstall your hardware and drivers then replace the motherboard and boot up. Issues arise when the OS tries to load drivers for the old board/hardware.

 

[optimistic]

I didn't. Here's my path:

Abit KT7A (Via KT133a) ==> Shuttle AK31 3.1 (Via KT266a)
ECS K7VM (Via KM133) ==> Iwill KK266 (Via KT133a)

Haven't had to format as of yet (4 months running)

 

[AndyHui]

I highly recommend a reinstall.

 

[THUGSROOK]

you dont have to reinstall the OS.
delete all the hardware in device manager. (from safe mode) have all the new drivers ready, its gonna take quite a few reboots to get it all installed correctly. ignore all error msgs. even once your done - go back into safe mode and delete everything that has a duplicate (there will be a few) and let those reinstall again. its a pain but its better then deleting windows. dont forget to enable DMA on all your drives too

 

[DaviDaVinci]

Other then stability issues, any other issues i should be concerned with? I just recently installed WinXp (clean install) and also a bunch of other programs. It would be a real pain and time consumption to re-install everything.

From what i understand then, I should just delete all hardware from DEVICE MANAGER. Power Off. Remove all Physical Hardware. Swap motherboards. Boot up. Install Physical Hardware back in one at a time.

Sound ok?

also, going from Gigabyte GA-7DX to Epox EP-8KHA+

 

[Auric]

It is worth a shot to save time. I have not done this with NT yet but 9x worked fine. A registry cleaner is useful for afterwards. You may also re-run Windows setup into the same location which will make certain everything is A-OK and have virtually no effect on your settings.

 

[stonecold3169]

Personally, I would finish backing up and format. I swapped from a sis735 system to an apollo133 ealier last year, and even when I deleted all devices and rebooted and everything was detected, I was getting slow, slow transfer speeds across all buses. No combinations of drivers or tweaking would help. I formated, and bingo everything worked great. Just my opnion.

 

[Auric]

Uh, yeah. But did you try re-running setup?

 

[DaviDaVinci]

Good question, i really want to know. By the way, when you run setup again, do you do the FIX errors option ( if i remember correctly) ?

Thanks