| geek_kiwikidd77 | January 13, 2009, 4:08 pm | #1 |
| Changing my Mobo means a new install right? Just about to do a small upgrade, I have been given a newer mainboard for my desktop. Current one has a limit of a 1.7Ghz processor whilst the newer one has a 2.6Ghz installed and can go to over 3. Am I right in thinking this upgrade will mean a total reinstall of windows XP Pro. TIA. |
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| geek_little_egypt | January 13, 2009, 4:10 pm | #2 |
| For windows XP, yes You can do a repair install though, it will keep all your existing programs and settings and only fix up XP to work with the new mobo. |
| geek_kiwikidd77 | January 13, 2009, 4:13 pm | #3 |
| Sounds good to me. what about Vista home premium I could get that instead. Got a mate with a copy he doesn't want. linux user. |
| geek_r.g.nixon | January 13, 2009, 9:15 pm | #4 |
| You could get Vista or you could get HIV. There's not much difference -I wouldn't go there myself. |
| geek_sirfer | January 13, 2009, 9:21 pm | #5 |
| PMSL!!!! HAHAHA!! |
| geek_bit | January 13, 2009, 9:51 pm | #6 |
| I've read on the net that if you uninstall the harddrive drivers/IDE controllers from the device list in Control panel you will be able to do the upgrade without re-installing but I haven't tried it. |
| geek_kiwikidd77 | January 13, 2009, 9:55 pm | #7 |
| Agrees with @ PMSL. ha ha ha ha ha. love that Idea. Will give bit's suggestion a go. But the upgrade will now happen tomorrow. I'm just taking a break from watching a dvd. |
| geek_drcspy | January 14, 2009, 3:56 am | #8 |
| It's a breeze to do a repair install anyway...40mins and then re-install your mobo drivers.......easy.. |
| geek_kiwikidd77 | January 14, 2009, 7:12 am | #9 |
| Damn I KNEW I'd forgotten something I have no drivers. lol. Now to find and download them. I'd forget my nogging if it weren't cross threaded and glued in place. thanks drcspy and others. |
| geek_mrfxit | January 14, 2009, 7:45 am | #10 |
| It's possible to avoid the MS points system As "bit" suggested but not confirmed it myself. Every part of hardware has an "amount of MS upgrade points assigned to it" I can't remember what it is now but things like optical drives/video cards etc had 3 points, hdd's had 7 points & m-b's had 10 points. This means that you can change several smaller items up to the 10 point limit without effecting the "original windows authentication" tag, but a m-b change automaticly invoked the msg's from Windows & the 42? day limit till it locked your computer |
| geek_mrfxit | January 14, 2009, 7:54 am | #11 |
| Sorry .. . Rambling / early morning (again) While a fresh install is "best practice" with a m/b change, yes it can be done fairly easy with a reasonable amount of success, BUT don't be surprised if it does act a bit odd some days . . .(no hang on, thats me .. . or is it). .. . . . . Yep ok, last thing to do before changing a m/b is to uninstall ALL the m/b drivers you can (returning the o/s back to as close as you can to a virgin state (be reasonable), this allows the repair install to "install new drivers without having to uninstall the old drivers first". This process could also fool the "windows validation" system(yea thats what it is for my above msg) but hard to tell, individual cases's & all that stuff. |
| geek_pcgeek | January 14, 2009, 8:20 am | #12 |
| Handy as a technician to be running a copy of Vista to work out the bugs your clients may come across. |
| geek_kiwikidd77 | January 14, 2009, 9:41 am | #13 |
| OK so how to identify the mobo? http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/15/84378715_full.jpg helpfully all it has written on it is PRESCOTT 533. no manufacturer or other numbers that I can see except for M248l Rev 1.1 just above the PRESCOTT 533 which is situated beside the CPU. maybe DFI? Or should I put it in place and use software to decide on manufacturer? |
| geek_swivel | January 14, 2009, 9:57 am | #14 |
| By looking at that. I'd say it came from a Mercury Computer.. Might have to go via the Chips |
| geek_swivel | January 14, 2009, 10:41 am | #15 |
| with that statement, It shows your very Stupid. or haven't reached puberty yep. Really dumb thing to say |
| geek_little_egypt | January 14, 2009, 10:57 am | #16 |
| Older windows You could remove the drivers for all the old hardware, then swap machines and it would re-detect all the hardware and load appropriate new drivers. That works for 98 and earlier though, not XP. The problem isn't to do with re-activating or avoiding that, removing drivers before swapping hardware won't get around the hardware change detection anyhow, it happens on VLK installes too. The problem is how windows configures itself, change mobo and windows will most likely blue-screen on boot up. Do a repair install and it fixes -everything-. You will need to re-enter the product key. You will need to re-activate if it's not a VLK edition. It's that simple. |
| geek_lostdude | January 14, 2009, 2:11 pm | #17 |
| Where did you get that board from? It's got an Intel Southbridge so Intel Chipset - no worries there as their website has all drivers. No way to tell what onboard sound & Network adapter they are but since it's intel, they integrate their own network adapters & sometimes soundcards (I forget the name sorry). If sound is Realtek then no worries there either. As mentioned already, just throw in the MB then do a repair install & you should be good to go. I've never had a problem with a repair install (so long as the disk is the same version as installed - Service Pack wise). |
| geek_sirfer | January 14, 2009, 2:35 pm | #18 |
| points ZOMG! what next? |
| geek_kiwikidd77 | January 14, 2009, 7:46 pm | #19 |
| Lostdude I was fortunate in having that mobo given to me. the previous owner had removed the CPU for some odd reason and a while ago I got advice off here on how to straighten some of the pins. Its all installed and going OK. Using it right now. All I need is to get a better video card, the built in one is 8mb. there's an AGP slot so hope to be able to use that. Will be keeping an eye out on here for one. Don't have a lot of $$ but I'm a patient man. Now to see if I can sort out MOBO drivers. the sound is AC '97 and works OK with drivers loaded for my old board. |
| geek_matthew_129 | January 15, 2009, 12:56 am | #20 |
| Few options If the mobos have the same or similar chipsets then the boards will swap without hassle. Other thing to do is run SYSprep this will return your machine back to a state where its ready for imaging/deploying onto other hardware. Beware, sysprep will wipe your my documents folder and you will need to type in your licence key again, but will make for an easy swap. |
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