swapping motherboards

[livingsacrifice]

Well I decided to swap my DOA msi p6n sli platinum for an abit ip35 pro but I already have XP pro and Vista x64 ultimate on my hd is Vista gonna throw a fit when I put my new board in because of the different northbridge and southbridge? In other words am I going to have to totally reload my OS because of it? Normally I stick with the nForce boards so I don't have the problem doing that I am just not sure with Vista since I haven't been using it that long.

 

[rchiu]

Originally posted by: livingsacrifice
Well I decided to swap my DOA msi p6n sli platinum for an abit ip35 pro but I already have XP pro and Vista x64 ultimate on my hd is Vista gonna throw a fit when I put my new board in because of the different northbridge and southbridge? In other words am I going to have to totally reload my OS because of it? Normally I stick with the nForce boards so I don't have the problem doing that I am just not sure with Vista since I haven't been using it that long.

Try This

 

[piasabird]

I kind of wonder what would happen if you just change the motherboards and install the chipset drivers. There are times when this just forces windows to install the correct devices.

 

[livingsacrifice]

Pretty nice link. I guess you basically just uninstall the motherboard drivers and anything attached to it then reinstall the drivers for the new motherboard and your golden

 

[NoelS]

Originally posted by: livingsacrifice
Pretty nice link. I guess you basically just uninstall the motherboard drivers and anything attached to it then reinstall the drivers for the new motherboard and your golden

Sorry, I can't give you any advice about Vista, per se... but,

rchiu's link is a good way to go, although I've found (at least with XP) that I can change out both a motherboard and a new CPU - even with a different chipset - and use my old HDD with the original OS and boot without any problems.

Give this a try - just put your old HDD with the OS's on it on your new system and see if it boots OK. If it does, you can load the new chipset drivers at your leisure. If it doesn't boot, then you can use rchiu's method. And if that doesn't work, you'll probably need a re-install.

Good luck, Noel

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

I think it's a general "best Practice" to reload the OS when you switch out the motherboard. You can get away without doing it...but I would be worried about straggling drivers, registry files stuff like that. I would just see this as an opportunity to practice the re-installation of an OS.

 

[livingsacrifice]

Can I just do a vista repair install?

 

[hans007]

you should be able to get away with it if say they are both intel chipsets. since you are going from nvidia to intel you might have to boot up first, delete all ide drivers etc and do the trick in that link.

a repair install also might work.

 

[livingsacrifice]

I was thinking just before I install the motherboard uninstall all chipset, video, anything connnected via pci slots drivers then when I boot back up with the new board it should be fine. Board comes tonight anyways so this should be fun.

 

[livingsacrifice]

Originally posted by: NoelS

Give this a try - just put your old HDD with the OS's on it on your new system and see if it boots OK. If it does, you can load the new chipset drivers at your leisure. If it doesn't boot, then you can use rchiu's method. And if that doesn't work, you'll probably need a re-install.

Good luck, Noel

The old HDD has Win XP 32bit on it and the drivers from my present motherboard. I have been with nForce boards the last 4 boards I've had or AMD processors so it wouldn't help me at all.