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Win XP Pro and new motherboard install

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KingDog

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I have build 2600 of XP Pro, installed from legally licensed copy from network administrator that required no activation.
Want to switch motherboard soon from 440 BX chipset mobo to an 845E or 850E.

What is the painless way to install new mobo without a reformat?
I am presently using a Promise ATA 133 hd controller card for my boot hard drive.

Thanks for any assistance.
 
I am not sure if you can simply do this without problems, but this is my experience:

I am using a 10gb hdd with Wxp corp. edit. that I do temp installs until I replace with larger hdd.
Currently that 10 gb hdd has been successfully installed on 2 different mobo computers and has booted up ok. The o/s has never been reinstalled.
Both were Intel 815e chipset mobo's.
One was an Abit SE6 and the other Gigabyte 60xm7e. Wxp simply found drivers it needed and said it found new hardware.

On the otherhand, I have had major problems trying to reinstall Wxp on a computer that previously had Wxp installed on it. I cannot get that computer to install Wxp again, even if i change the hdd. I can run the 10gb hdd with Wxp installed without any problems, but cannot install Wxp to anything on that computer. The read/write mechanism from the bios to the ide channel has bee altered somehow and XP has problems copying files on the install.
I have used original MS Wxp Pro cd (registered to me but never installed) to attemp the install with no success.


 
with XP, you can do the motherboard swap and then run a repair install, but you'd need the OS CD to do that.
 
Save yourself the headaches and start fresh. In my experience there is no such thing as a "painless" to install a new mobo. that means new drivers etc, etc...
 
Thanks for the input.
I can get the CD from the network administrator to do a reinstall or repair.
What are the chances of it being OK if I change to IDE channel default drivers before the mobo swap?
Would XP then load default drivers and then could I load the new chipset drivers?
Or is it easier to do a repair install?
XP will not have drivers for an 850e or 845e chipset.
I can start over but it takes awile to get things set up again the way you want as you all know.
 
I just swapped my Gigabyte 60xm7e mobo with my Abit SE6 (both Intel 815e chipsets).
Kept all the same hardware including hdd.
XP booted up fine and installed the different sound driver.
Did not need the cd.
edit: but you are installing from a network mobo and hdd that may have been customized for your drivers and left out others.
You may need the cd for that unless you are on the Inet. Then it will seek those on the net.
Give it a try.
 
I am on a standalone workstation, so it would not be a remote install.
I guess it can't hurt to try it first without a reformat and reinstall.
It may work out just fine.
Thanks.
 
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