Upgrading motherboard, will Win2k adjust?

[TomT]

I am thinking about upgrading my current otherboard, an ASUS K7M, to the new Abit K7T, which supports AMD Thunderbird cpu's, and PC133 memory. I'd like to keep my current installation of Win2k, and am wondering if anyone knows how Win2k will deal with the change.

Will it automatically make adjustments for the new board's chipset, or will I have to re-install the OS?

Has anyone tried this?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Ausm]

It should work fine for you

Ausm

 

[TomT]

Thanks for the reply. I've had a few people tell me it won't work, but I think I'll give it a shot. Have you tried this yourself?

Tom

 

[mjquilly]

It very well may work, but I'd prefer a fresh install with a new hardware upgrade such as a Motherboard.

 

[Conroy9]

In the past, I've tried doing that with a p2 and win95, and it didn't like it at all
devies couldn't be found/installed and it just kept crashing at weird places

..but that was 3 years ago.

 

[urbantechie]

IMHO, no. It will give you a Inaccessable Boot Device Error. Your best bet is too do a clean install of Win2k.

 

[Elledan]

I agree with UrbanTechie. The mobo is simply the most vital part of a PC and not yet another ISA/PCI/AGP card that you can insert/remove as many times as you want without problems.

 

[Rifter]

with win98 it works, i have done it, but with win2k a am almost positive it will not work.

 

[Spoooon]

When I switched mobos, I tried to not have to do a fresh install. I was running Win98. It didn't like it at all.

 

[StuckMojo]

it MIGHT work...sometimes it does, sometimes not.

i would recommend installing the new board, booting from the win2k cd the first time you power up, and reinstalling over top your existing installation, without choosing fresh install. this will save all your software settings and such, but redetect and reinstall all the hardware. you'll achieve what you want, and it will only take about 1/2 hour.

 

[Bozo]

It works, I've done it. Matter of fact, I took a hard drive from a custom PC and installed it in a Gateway. Win2k came up, said it need to restart to install new goodies and it was fine. Win2k ran like it was installed there all along.

Bozo

 

[TomT]

Bozo, did you do a re-install, or just boot up Win2k?

 

[Heifetz]

When I did it, switching from BP6 W/ 2 celeries, to a KT7 Duron combo, Win2k wouldn't start, and I had to boot up from cd and reinstall. It might actually be more because of the SMP to Single CPU issue then the Mobo. But, after that reinstall, things just got worse and worse. Win2k would crash for no explicable reason, randomly. I was getting pissed off, because I would be doing some programming assignment, and I would never know when I would get a BSOD. So I decided to reformat the drive, and reinstall from scratch...and I'm extremely happy so far. Absolutely Stable, w/o one single BSOD so far.

So the moral of the story? If you save the time now and work now...it'll probably come back and haunt you. So might as well reformat and reinstall, and be happy!


Heifetz

 

[jacobnero6918]

I'm going to be doing this also and was wondering if I need to unistall all my programs first in Windows 2000 because there all installed from D drive and Windows 2000 is on F drive ????

I don't have to reformat my entire hard drive do I ???


Also what about SP1 how do I re-install SP1 ???

I have a burner so I could save SP1, anybody have any tips to make this all go smoothly.


BTW I'm buying a ASUS and Thunderbird !

 

[WoundedWallet]

TomT, it won't hurt trying.

I have an "untested" suggestion though. - Uninstall all the devices first. - Like sound card, video card, scsi, extra hd, everything that you can do without in a boot. Try to make your system as clean as a safe boot.

Then change the mobos and see if w2k can take the hit.

From what I've seen w2k seems to be quite finicky. I had to reinstall when I added a second cpu to my bp6. So I won't be surprised if you have to do the same. Besides if you had your system since the beggining of the year it may be a good idea to clean it up now.

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Jacob, you don't need to reformat at all. While it may be a good idea to reformat your f: you can do a reinstall on top of the old system. But don't touch your existing programs. Some of them will work as they are and some won't. For those that balk, you will need to reinstall them.

Regarding sp1, I have no clue what to do. But I imagine that if you reinstall your OS then you need to reinstall sp1 afterwords.

WW

 

[leighd8]

I am going to try the same thing in a few days when my new mobo\cpu come in...
I have win2k on one partition of fat32, most likely I will try to get rid of everything installed, like pci and agp cards printer, scanner and then try the swap.

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if I do have to reinstall win2k how do i do it??? and what will I lose data-wise, I would assume everything.