Replacing the mobo in an already built machine

dieselfrog

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My machine has been up and running fine for a little while but i'm not satisfied with my motherboard's features. It is an ECS and is OK but i can't really do any tweeking with it.

How much of a pain in the a$$ is it to rip out a mobo and put in a brand new one? I'm running win XP pro, will windows give me much of a hastle? Anyone have any experiences to share or any links to articles/tutorials i can look at? I'm jut trying to gage if its worth it to replace a perfectly fine motherboard with a slightly better one.

Thanks.
 

dieselfrog

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i'm actually ok with a clean install i guess... i'm mostly worried about FUBARing the whole thing and then not getting a POST or something like that.
 

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I am currently running THIS ECS 915 mobo, a LGA775 P4 3.2 cpu, 6600GT PCI-e vid card, one sata HD, one IDE optical cd\dvd rw combo, and 2 sticks of DDR400 ram running in dual channel for a total of 1 GB. Using the onboard audio and ethernet... running win XP pro.

Nothing too complex.

I'm thinking about upgrading to THIS Abit AG8 mobo so i can do some tweeking.

I'm just wondering if it will be worth it to have the control that the uGuru app gives you.