"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


"DaveW" wrote in message
news:nehdd.499133$8_6.422140@attbi_s04...
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


David Maynard wrote:
You may safely ignore DaveW's uninformed and invalid babblings on this
subject.


Craig:
You can install a new motherboard/processor/RAM in your system and perform a
Repair install of the XP OS. It's a near certainty that the system will not
boot (thus resulting in a "chuck a wobbly" hard drive, I guess) until you
perform this Repair install which will maintain your present programs and
data. Needless to say, there's no absolute guarantee of this so it will be
prudent for you to backup whatever programs and data that are important to
you before you undertake the Repair install. You will, of course, need to
have available any drivers that may be needed for your new components after
performing the Repair install.

In nearly every case there is no need to do a "fresh install" of the OS and
you need not "look forward to ongoing nasty Registry errors..." should you
perform a Repair install.

You can obtain detailed instructions on how to perform a Repair install by
doing a Google search of "windows xp repair install".

Art