Upgrading from AMD 754 to 939, do I need to reformat

[bennybone]

Planning to upgrade from socket 754 to 939 and I am wondering if all I need to do is delete uninstall the Nvidia chipset drivers in anticipation of the hardware swap?

I do not recall an icon or method for uninstalling the chipset drivers and even after doing so we all know how much can be left behind...

Current mobo is an ASUS K8N with Nvidia 250 chipset.

The new mobo is going to be an ASUS A8V with VIA K8T800 Pro chipset OR an ABIT AV8 which has the VIA chipset as well...

I of course want to avoid all conflict of software and drivers, and I am unsure how WinXP installs based on initial hardware detected during setup...

Thanks for your help.

 

[bowserjs]

Whenever i swap out a motherboard i do a fresh install, I have seen windows sometimes accept the new motherboard without a reload, but more often then not windows has problems

 

[imported_Kensai]

If you upgrade directly to a board which requires the same drivers, you'll be fine. But either way, I go a fresh reinstall of Windows when I do swap the mobo.

 

[yliu]

if you are using SATA then I think you will need to reformat. If you can use PATA though it's a simple matter of uninstalling the chipset and IDE drivers from the previous motherboard before you swap the board (and thus use the Standard PCI-IDE controller option) and then install the new drivers after you put the new board in.

The above also assumes that the BIOS settings for ACPI and APCI are the same before and after however, since they determine the type of HAL used by windows.