New Mobo and CPU

[blubomber]

According to FedEx, i should be getting my new mobo and CPU today, so i am going to be spending the better part of the night installing them.

The new mobo and CPU are a Shuttle AN35N Ultra and Duron 1.6 (hoping for a B core). I am currently running an Asus A7V mother board (oh and i do already have some DDR RAM), and Duron 1.2 GHz (i no longer have the Duron 1.2, but that is another story). I am running windows XP Pro SP1. I wanted to try not reinstalling windows XP, and just remove the old motherboard drives and install the new ones.

So i am looking for a good method to uninstall the old mobo drivers and put the new ones in. I normaly wipe the HD clean and start over when replacing a motherboard, but i want to try to not do that this time just for the experience.

Thank you for any help and guidance.

[John Prophet]

What occurs is just to remove everything that applies from device manager.

Shut down.

Put in new stuff.

Reboot to cd and do "repair" on the windows install......not the first "R" which is just the recovery console....but let it start to install windows and then it'll find your current windows install and one of the options will be to "repair" that install.

Thats the only way I have heard peeps get away without a format. (well, I havent heard anyone say to remove the stuff from device manager first, but it sounded good so I said it, lol)

[jmebonner]

Eek, I'd just back up what i need and do a fresh, usualy the least trouble that way.
Of course the real reason I'm posting is b/c I wanted to see how my avatar compared to yours (Go Broncos!)

[Gettinbye]

Sometimes you can get away with making system changes without having to do the repair install...If you put your system together and then try to boot, XP will let you know if you need to. At that point, you can just put in your CD and do the repair install.

[blubomber]

for a second there, jmebonner, i thought i had posted and forgot i did. Nice Avatar.

big game on sunday, we have beat them before though.

I think i am just going to go for a non reinstall and see how it goes. I can always start over.

[jmichna]

blubomber...
If you do follow John Prophet's recommendations, please post back and let us know how it went. I've not heard of anyone successfully changing mobos with different chipsets with W2K or WinXP installed, no matter what they did. Something about the "hardware hive" becoming corrupted.

IMO, a clean, fresh install gets rid of a lot of accumulated jinks and errors... and results in a speedier, more stable -- and happy -- system.

[Brangwen]

Go with the CLEAN INSTALL!

No regrets or one less variable when the "Why won't this boot?" question arrives.

Though, I'd be curious if a method short of a clean install works for you ... (Honestly) however I would not use it unless time was of the essence.

I tried w/o a clean install a week ago (Asus A7N8X-E with XP3200) and received message that HDD was invalid or non-bootable ... Win2KPro.

Good luck.

Brangwen

[blubomber]

Here is the plan. My computer as it stands has no CPU in it ( another story as mentioned above), so i am going to be installing the new mobo and cpu without unistalling the old Mobo drivers. I am guessing it is not going to go well. So, after Windows XP screems bloody murder at me and wont work right, i am going to do a reinstall anyway. I just like to try new things.

I will post when it is done and let you all know the results.

Wish me luck!!!

[blubomber]

Well, windows XP did not like the new chipset. I could not get it to boot into safe mode or anything. I tried the recovery console and all that good stuff but XP just did not like it going from a VIA KT133 chipset to nVidia nForce2 chipset. Oh well.

But, i am liking my new mobo and CPU.

[jmichna]

Originally posted by blubomber
Well, windows XP did not like the new chipset. I could not get it to boot into safe mode or anything. I tried the recovery console and all that good stuff but XP just did not like it going from a VIA KT133 chipset to nVidia nForce2 chipset. Oh well.

But, i am liking my new mobo and CPU.

Your experience is about what I expected... you really are better off with a fresh, clean intall. Enjoy your new hardware!