If you change the motherboard that a harddrive with the OS on it uses, then
you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise
you can look forward to ongoing nasty Registry errors on your system.

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DaveW



"Craig Gobbi" wrote in message
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I am about to replace my Ausu A7A166 mainboard and AMD1.6+ cpu with
somethin faster (havent decided on what yet) I just want to do a straight
swap into my case keeping all of the cards I have now including a GF5900fx.
I am running XP pro.
My question is will the hard drive chuck a wobbly the 1st time it is
started with a new mainboard installed?

Is there a good way to do this?
Thanks for any help
Craig