Installing New Motherboard on Old HD

[BlakkIce]

im changing my motherboard and processor from a tyan dual p3 to an intel p4 is everything gonna be ok if i just swap everything out or do i have to reformat

 

[Ausm]

I would reformat and save headaches


Ausm

 

[medusaccino]

yes you have to format cuz the harddrive got the settings of the old motherboard and it will definately conflict with the new motherboard. so go ahead and format and start fresh.

 

[AluminumStudios]

It's generally a bad idea. Windows most often will blow up and it will take hours upon hourse of troublehsooting which may leave you with an instable system. I got away with it on a Windows NT4 machine once and a Windows 98 machine once. But the 98 machine took hours and hours and HOURS of driver troubleshooting. It would have been quicker and cleaner to just reformat the firggan thing. It was for a lay-user at work and in the end it was easier for me to get Windows working agian then listen to them bitch about a reloaded system.

It's generally not advised. The times I did it was for users machines at work that blew, and with the simple users, me spending hourse throubleshooting was easier than explaining to them where their programs and carefully arranged junk went (^_^

I'm pretty sure that Windows 2000 or XP will just up and barf completely on you. I wouldn't dare try it with them. Unless you are a very expereinced troubleshooter don't try it.

 

[BlakkIce]

thanks guys

 

[Slacker]

The problem with your situation is that you are going from dual processors to a single processor.

I always swap and let windows figure it out and have never had a problem, I just did it a week ago, going from a P3 with intel chipset to a P4 with SiS chipset, no problem at all.

 

[BlakkIce]

thanks again i wish i could ghost the drive but its 10gigs on there and it will have all the old drivers when i do that ahh well

 

[RustyNale]

It can be done. I usually uninstall all the bus drivers--actually any driver that is associated with the mobo, then on boot up, just feed it the new ones. One note--depending on the OS, you might want to copy the new mobo drivers to your harddrive first ( not install, just copy them into a folder), so when windows starts looking for them you can point it right to them instead of trying to get them off the cd (which might not be working as the bus drivers are gone ) Of course, the best solution is to reformat and do a fresh install...

 

[AluminumStudios]

I just realized that you are going from dual to single CPU. Windows 2000/XP uses a different HAL (hardware abstaction layer) for dual and single CPU systems. I read somewhere in the MS Knowledge base that you should not try to change the HAL as it will cause conflicts that will prevent you from ever getting into 2000/XP to fix it.

 

[BlakkIce]

ok well tuff luck i think ill just reinstall

 

[Jgtdragon]

I just this this couple days ago. I just got a new Audigy, Asus p4t-e, and 1.8a Northwood. I removed the video and sound driver. I am running dual boot with two hard drives. All I had to do was installed the Intel chipset driver, video, and sound driver. Windows XP redetects all the other hardware. So far everything runs fine and stable.

Hmmm, your case might be diffrent because you are running a difference chipset. I upgrade from SB live, Asus P4t, and 1.4 P4. Just format to be safe.