going from BX board to VIA chipset? need to reformat?

[ingenue007]

i am going from a celeron on a BX board to a duron on the VIA chipset.

is reformatting necessary? any conflicts to expect?

thanks.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

yes... You can install over with win2k and it should save your settings(but I recommend a clean install).


Mike

 

[ingenue007]

darn i expected this. and i just reformatted 2 days ago too. what a hassle.....oh well.

 

[Outlaw]

Its a pain.. Just clean Install

 

[BurnItDwn]

if you run win98 or ME you don't NEED to reformat ... you would be best off doing so ... but as long as you are willing to accept the fact that you will have all the old inf files polluting your windows dir and crap in your registry ... you shouldnt even need a clean install ... (you will have to install all the drivers and the like though)

 

[ingenue007]

i will eventually reformat (want to) but don't want to do it rt now cause too much school.

 

[OddOne]

Actually there's a way to swap motherboards without having to clean-install Windows.

Before doing the swap, open Device Manager and add the "Plug-and-Play BIOS (fail-safe)" driver, then remove ALL other items. And I do mean ALL other items - remove every hardware device on the system. Then shut down and swap boards. When you restart the PnP BIOS driver will start detecting new hardware. You'll need to install chipset drivers a.s.a.p. (VIA 4-in-1, etc.) to get all of the hardware detected but it'll do it.

O d d O n e, who went form a BE6-2 to a P3V4X that way - safely.