Need help replacing MSI K7T Pro with K7T Turbo 2

[Dethoff]

Hi,

Over a year ago I built the following system which ran very well until the motherboard died after 10 months. MSI replaced it with another K7T Pro which only lasted for 4 months before it died too. (It seems these were prone to early failures)

When I called MSI the second time and complained, they agreed to replace it with the newer K7T Turbo 2 which is based on the KT133A chipset. My computer is disassembled and I expect the new mobo any day now.

My question is this. Can I simply install this slightly different motherboard, boot up and expect all to work well, or do I need to reinstall Windows?

Any advice would be appreciated!




MSI K7T Pro (MS-6330) Mobo
(socket-A KT133 chip set)
AMD Socket A Athlon 1200 (200 FSB)
256 MB PC133 RAM
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard
Hercules Prophet II MX (Nvidia Geforce II MX) video card
30 GB Maxtor ATA 100 7200 RPM HD (partitioned into drives C: (for sysytem files) and drive D: (for program and data files)
Plextor 12x10x32 IDE CDRW
Pioneer 10x IDE DVD-ROM
Iomega 100 IDE zip drive
300 Watt PS
Win 98 SE

 

[rb56]

I had the same problem as you with my Pro 2A. Died after 8 months. I replaced it with a Turbo while waiting for the RMA. Most would recommend that you do a clean install, but I just dropped it in to see what would happen and it worked fine. I'm not saying that it will work every time but if you need to pull some files off the HD (like I did) before you reinstall you can give it a try.

rb56

 

[DAPUNISHER]

You shouldn't experience any difficulty just switching boards and BTW I had a pro2 and pro2-A die :frown: