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Upgrading Motherboard & CPU - How will WinXP respond

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ejohanss

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Well, I did it again. Whilst installing my 800 gram Thermalright Socket A heatsink, I managed to kill my ABIT NF7-S v1.2. It now just rings high/low tones when I power it up. Swapped to a known working CPU, same deal. Reset the bios, same deal. I think it's gotta be the board.

Rather than rush out and get a replacement board of the same make, I'd like to consider an upgrade while I'm at it. I wonder if I stay in the Nforce family, if my current installation of WinXP will handle the transition without too may hiccups.

Ideally, I'd like to move to a socket 939 Athlon board, probably Nforce3 Ultra (since I just bought my 6600GT AGP.)

Any experiences with migrating motherboards? Advice?

Thanks.
 
I upgraded from a NF7 to an Epox 9NDA3J socket 939 NF3 ultra. Zero problems, it just booted right up. I was actually really amazed.
 
I've migrated to new motherboards several times without having to re-install windows. Usualy what helps the most is to uninstall your chipset drivers prior to swapping, but since your unable to do that, you will probably have to do a repair install(repairs windows without you loosing data and having to re-install windows).
 
Originally posted by: ejohanss
Well, I did it again. Whilst installing my 800 gram Thermalright Socket A heatsink, I managed to kill my ABIT NF7-S v1.2. It now just rings high/low tones when I power it up. Swapped to a known working CPU, same deal. Reset the bios, same deal. I think it's gotta be the board.

Rather than rush out and get a replacement board of the same make, I'd like to consider an upgrade while I'm at it. I wonder if I stay in the Nforce family, if my current installation of WinXP will handle the transition without too may hiccups.

Ideally, I'd like to move to a socket 939 Athlon board, probably Nforce3 Ultra (since I just bought my 6600GT AGP.)

Any experiences with migrating motherboards? Advice?

Thanks.
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Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't..but it's never a great idea. You end up with driver leftovers and things and it's generally better performance-wise to do a fresh install with a new mainboard.

Also...with that particular motherboard, the high/low alarm sound is I believe a CPU fan warning. Is the fan on that thermalright a low RPM/larger size fan? If so, plug like a standard 80mm into the CPU port and see what happens. My friend has that board and he had the same problem.
 
yea.. just try to uninstall the chipset drivers before hand... and if it still doesn't boot den just reinstall windows..
 
If you want a trouble free windows installation, you will format your drive. Not formatting it is just asking for trouble.
 
I moved from an NF7-S v2 to an Epox 8KDA3J (NF3) without a re-install of windows and it works fine. Didn't even remove the chipset drivers. However, I am running Win2k as opposed to WinXP
edit: you should RMA your board, it is still at least worth something (to sell I mean if nothing else). I had no problem RMAing my NF7-S when it died.
 
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