Hi guys,
A friend of mine's computer conked out on him this weekend and I just went through and troubleshooted it. Looks like a dead motherboard. So, i'm going to put a new motherboard in his computer this week.
Anyway, my question is concerning his SATA configuration. His current motherboard is an EPOX 8RDA+ that doesn't have onboard SATA. He has a Promise RAID PCI controller with 2x 36gb WD Raptors running in RAID 0 configuration. It is the Nforce2 Chipset.
Pretty much every motherboard i've found to replace his has onboard SATA, which is great, i'm just wondering what (if any) issues I will have installing his current XP install on a new motherboard with a new SATA controller. The other components and the chipset will remain the same so there shouldn't be any major issues with the XP install. If I stick the hard drives in a new motherboard with a new controller will it boot up properly as if nothing has changed? Will I have to configure something with the onboard controller? Will it blow up and send the hard drives shooting across the room?
Worst case scenario I could always stick his controller card/hard drives in my computer and backup whatever data he needs and then do a clean install with the new motherboard but it'd be nice if this wasn't necessary. Thanks in advance for any replies!
John
A friend of mine's computer conked out on him this weekend and I just went through and troubleshooted it. Looks like a dead motherboard. So, i'm going to put a new motherboard in his computer this week.
Anyway, my question is concerning his SATA configuration. His current motherboard is an EPOX 8RDA+ that doesn't have onboard SATA. He has a Promise RAID PCI controller with 2x 36gb WD Raptors running in RAID 0 configuration. It is the Nforce2 Chipset.
Pretty much every motherboard i've found to replace his has onboard SATA, which is great, i'm just wondering what (if any) issues I will have installing his current XP install on a new motherboard with a new SATA controller. The other components and the chipset will remain the same so there shouldn't be any major issues with the XP install. If I stick the hard drives in a new motherboard with a new controller will it boot up properly as if nothing has changed? Will I have to configure something with the onboard controller? Will it blow up and send the hard drives shooting across the room?
Worst case scenario I could always stick his controller card/hard drives in my computer and backup whatever data he needs and then do a clean install with the new motherboard but it'd be nice if this wasn't necessary. Thanks in advance for any replies!
John
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