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Switch from A8N-SLI Premium to A8N32-SLI Deluxe

It can be done but you may encounter some quirks here and there. Overall performance feel of such systems would be not as responsive as a clean-installed system. This is from an experience.

Anyhow, if your question's beef was whether it can be done, the answer is "yes". The boards and NV drivers do a pretty decent job, and you just have to uninstall the old chipset/video drivers (and other stuff that you use off the board), and install the new ones. But I encountered quite a few annoyances and system lags/hangs/reboots occaisionally, and ended up redoing the whole system. All above mentioned symptoms are gone now.
 
Get driver cleaner and uninstall all the drivers for the old board before swap. Swap out the board and reinstall drivers (audio, LAN, chipset, VGA) and you should be pretty close. I'm actually waiting on my A8N32 and I'm going from the A8N-SLI deluxe and I'm going to bench every thing with both boards and then do a clean formate to see if there are any diferences. My buddy tried to get away without reformating his raptor from his Abit MoBO/intel P4 board to the AMD FX w/A8N32-sli and it booted and he could use everything but many bugs forced him to reformate. Games would or anything CPU intencive would crash; he was pisted and i was just shaking my head. I think his expectation were alittle to unresonable.
 
Originally posted by: XabanakFanatik
Question in title, would I or can I get by without?
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I'm curious... Why would you bother making this switch?

I thought there were virtually no performance differences between SLI 8xPCIe+8xPCIe versus 16xPCIe + 16xPCIe.
 
I'm making the switch because of the cooling and the overclockability. I'll go for the SLI later but my buddy wanted my board and i said why don't you check out the A8N32 since they basically took A8N-sli and fixed everything that was wrong with it. Not that anything is wrong with the original but the heat and the noise are to much for my bedroom.
 
Hi Guys,

I did exactly this some threefour months or so ago, as my Premium was deemed faulty and I "upgraded" to the 32-Deluxe.

It did work (after a fashion), I did remove all chipset drivers first, as these are different for the two boards, but I still had a Black-screen crash on first loading of Windows!

I ran Windows Repair from install CD and it repaired and appeared to run fine (I did re-load RAID Drivers in repair, but don't actaully know if I needed to), so no lost data or programmes!

But then I had wierd non-working SLI issues. SLI appeared enabled everything said both cards were there and working fine, but 3DMark06 scores were that of a single card. I tried new drivers, old drivers, switching cards around, switching pereference all to no avail!

In the end did new slipstream XP install and bingo SLI fine and everthing OK, but had to reload programmes!

Being honest don't know if it was my errors that caused problem, as I have not switched MB's before without new Windows install, but thought I would share my experiences.

Ridesy
 
I upgraded from a low-end Asus nF4, and I ran "Repair Installation" of XP upon advice from the forum here. It worked flawlessly. I didn't lose anything, like Windows settings.
 
I have switched motherboards a few times running XP (most recently MSI Neo2 Plat. to Abit KN8 SLI) and haven't had any issues. You don't need to use driver cleaner or run a repair install (at least I never have). Before you shut down, uninstall ALL motherboard, video, and sound drivers in control panel. Then go into device manager and remove any hardware that is either onboard or uses the PCI/PCIE/IDE bus such as integrated network adapters, USB ports, display adapters and such. You shouldn't have to remove the IDE controllers, but if you decide to, make sure you remove them last or else your machine may lock up. DO NOT reboot until everything is deleted/removed! You also don't need to remove drives like CD ROM and hard disks. When you've removed everything, shut down and swap motherboards. When you re-boot with the new board installed windows will start finding all your hardware. Let it do it's thing, you may need to re-boot a few times until it installs everything it can on it's own. Then it's just a matter of installing your new Mobo drivers, etc. until everything is happy. Of course there is a chance something can go wrong and you'll have to re-install anyway so back up anything you can't live without first. Good luck!
 
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