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Upgrading Motherboard
Hi all,
I'm currently looking to upgrade my rather lame setup. At the moment I'm running an AMD K6-2+ 550Mhz CPU on a DFI K6XV3+ motherboard. I'm looking to upgrade to an Athlon XP 2400+ 2Ghz. What's the best motherboard for this speed chip. How do I tell what's the fastest speed CPU the motherboard will support? What other factors do I have to take into consideration when reattaching my components e.g. Graphics Card - ATI Rage 3D Pro AGP 2x, CD Drives and Hard Disk? Thanks in advance. Mike |
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If you change the motherboard in an existing computer, then you MUST
reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you risk getting ongoing nasty Registry errors. -- DaveW "Mike" wrote in message om... Hi all, I'm currently looking to upgrade my rather lame setup. At the moment I'm running an AMD K6-2+ 550Mhz CPU on a DFI K6XV3+ motherboard. I'm looking to upgrade to an Athlon XP 2400+ 2Ghz. What's the best motherboard for this speed chip. How do I tell what's the fastest speed CPU the motherboard will support? What other factors do I have to take into consideration when reattaching my components e.g. Graphics Card - ATI Rage 3D Pro AGP 2x, CD Drives and Hard Disk? Thanks in advance. Mike |
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If you change the motherboard in an existing computer, then you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you risk getting ongoing nasty Registry errors. Wrong. Evidently this "DaveW" is a troll. That's an odd kind of troll who offers good, accurate advice. YES, you can change a motherboard without reinstalling windows. You can also jump out of an airplane without a parachute. It's possible. Not usually a good idea, but it's possible, dammit!!! So let's kill the guy who suggests that a parachute should be used, as he's obviously a troll. There is a right way to do things and a shortcut. Most of the time, choosing not to reformat is going to cause major headaches, kind of like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. You'll only make that mistake once. -Dave |
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Dave C. wrote:
If you change the motherboard in an existing computer, then you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you risk getting ongoing nasty Registry errors. Wrong. Evidently this "DaveW" is a troll. That's an odd kind of troll who offers good, accurate advice. YES, you can change a motherboard without reinstalling windows. You can also jump out of an airplane without a parachute. It's possible. Not usually a good idea, but it's possible, dammit!!! So let's kill the guy who suggests that a parachute should be used, as he's obviously a troll. There is a right way to do things and a shortcut. Most of the time, choosing not to reformat is going to cause major headaches, kind of like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. You'll only make that mistake once. -Dave Simply untrue. |
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There is a right way to do things and a shortcut. Most of the time,
choosing not to reformat is going to cause major headaches, kind of like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. You'll only make that mistake once. -Dave Simply untrue. Ya rolls the dice, ya takes yer chances. -Dave |
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Dave C. wrote:
There is a right way to do things and a shortcut. Most of the time, choosing not to reformat is going to cause major headaches, kind of like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. You'll only make that mistake once. -Dave Simply untrue. Ya rolls the dice, ya takes yer chances. -Dave It's only a 'roll of the dice' if you don't know what you're doing. |
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It's only a 'roll of the dice' if you don't know what you're doing. If you'd even entertain the idea of trying it, then you know just enough to be truly dangerous. I could replace a motherboard without formatting the hard drive. It's easy to do. It's also very stupid. Eventually, it WILL bite you in the ass. It's not possible to completely clear everything out of the registry. You might think you have a working system . . . for a while. It's a time bomb, though. -Dave |
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Dave C. wrote:
It's only a 'roll of the dice' if you don't know what you're doing. If you'd even entertain the idea of trying it, then you know just enough to be truly dangerous. I could replace a motherboard without formatting the hard drive. It's easy to do. It's also very stupid. Eventually, it WILL bite you in the ass. It's not possible to completely clear everything out of the registry. You might think you have a working system . . . for a while. It's a time bomb, though. -Dave I've done it many times and not one of the systems has ever had any related problems of any kind. It is simply that you do not know of what you speak. |
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Dave C. wrote:
It's only a 'roll of the dice' if you don't know what you're doing. If you'd even entertain the idea of trying it, then you know just enough to be truly dangerous. I could replace a motherboard without formatting the hard drive. It's easy to do. It's also very stupid. Eventually, it WILL bite you in the ass. It's not possible to completely clear everything out of the registry. You might think you have a working system . . . for a while. It's a time bomb, though. -Dave "David Maynard" wrote in message ... I've done it many times and not one of the systems has ever had any related problems of any kind. It is simply that you do not know of what you speak. Based upon my own experience involving the installation of dozens of new motherboards and/or hard drives in an XP environment, I'm in complete agreement with the view expressed by David Maynard. At the most, all that is necessary is to undertake a Repair installation of the XP OS. I say "at the most", because in a significant number (albeit minority) of cases we found that the system would boot after a motherboard change even though the new motherboard was completely different from the one being replaced. We've never been able to explain the reason for this although we happily accepted it. In any event we have never found it necessary or advisable to reformat the drive after a motherboard change. Like David Maynard, we have never experienced any subsequent problems that could be traced to a motherboard change followed by a Repair install of XP. Having said all this, if the user feels more comfortable reformatting his or her drive following a motherboard change and doesn't mind the subsequent time & effort expended in reinstalling their programs and data, then they can go right ahead and do so. But again, to say this is necessary to prevent future problems with the OS just ain't so based on our experience. Art |
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