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I'm going to give up my two years old am2 motherboard and cpu, for a Gigabyte P35 + E7200. Everything else stays the same.

So, the "smart" question is: Am I forced to reinstall windows for that or it might work with the old windows . I was thinking of uninstalling all the drivers for everything before the new motherboard and cpu will be installed.

I know that the answer to my question is something like : " Reinstall it you lazy ass !" 🙂 but I have so many projects that I'm working on and I can't really afford loosing a whole day to install again everything, SP1, updates , all my programs and the most time consuming thing, to reconfigure Vista. So, is it possible not to do it? 😱
 
I went from a 939 based system to a Core 2 Duo one without reinstalling XP or using a third party program. Everything booted fine on the first try. Once I uninstalled the AMD drivers I loaded the Intel ones and I had no problems. My current XP install is on it's third Motherboard/CPU combination.
 
Originally posted by: ajemm
I went from a 939 based system to a Core 2 Duo one without reinstalling XP or using a third party program. Everything booted fine on the first try. Once I uninstalled the AMD drivers I loaded the Intel ones and I had no problems. My current XP install is on it's third Motherboard/CPU combination.
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Hmm, that sounds great. So you've uninstalled drivers of your motherboard and what, the AMD cpu driver prior to your new hardware install?
 
Originally posted by: ajemm
I went from a 939 based system to a Core 2 Duo one without reinstalling XP or using a third party program. Everything booted fine on the first try. Once I uninstalled the AMD drivers I loaded the Intel ones and I had no problems. My current XP install is on it's third Motherboard/CPU combination.
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sysprep is not a 3rd party software, it's part of windows. I also advise against the russian roulette method of just installing and letting it go. It CAN work but doesn't always. Trust me, been there, lost that data.
 
Originally posted by: Gillbot
Originally posted by: ajemm
I went from a 939 based system to a Core 2 Duo one without reinstalling XP or using a third party program. Everything booted fine on the first try. Once I uninstalled the AMD drivers I loaded the Intel ones and I had no problems. My current XP install is on it's third Motherboard/CPU combination.
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sysprep is not a 3rd party software, it's part of windows. I also advise against the russian roulette method of just installing and letting it go. It CAN work but doesn't always. Trust me, been there, lost that data.
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Oh how I feel your pain. As I too have been down that painful road. :frown:
 
Ok, so I backed up my data, uninstalled all the drivers and did the upgrade without sysprep or any other thing and it worked!!!!!!!!!!! Vista installed everything right from the first boot and now it works so very good. So a mobo+cpu switch can happen without loosing data or having to reinstall windows. Of course, I might be lucky, but it worked!!!!!!
 
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