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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
Putting a replacement mobo in a Compaq Deskpro EN PIII WinXP Home,
theoretically identical to the original mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S? Not sure if there are identifiers in a particular mobo that the O/S needs to "see". Thanks. |
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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
"Doc" wrote in message
ink.net... Putting a replacement mobo in a Compaq Deskpro EN PIII WinXP Home, theoretically identical to the original mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S? Not sure if there are identifiers in a particular mobo that the O/S needs to "see". Probably not. If Windows complains, then do a repair installation, not a complete reinstall. |
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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Microsoft Community Newsgroups news://msnews.microsoft.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*---------------- "Doc" wrote: | Putting a replacement mobo in a Compaq Deskpro EN PIII WinXP Home, | theoretically identical to the original mobo, will I have to reinstall the | O/S? Not sure if there are identifiers in a particular mobo that the O/S | needs to "see". | | Thanks. |
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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
If you are installing a motherboard IDENTICAL to the one it is replacing, the
odds of Windows and billg complaining are almost nil. I've done a lot of repairs of Dell computers, in particular, with motherboard swaps and not yet encountered a problem. If the processor speed and BIOS revision are the same between the two boards, Windows does not see any difference. In practice with a Compaq or Dell or Intel-made or IBM motherboard, the only difference between two boards at the BIOS level is the motherboard serial number (Dell service tag) burned into the BIOS. With a Compaq motherboard, the BIOS setup allows you to change the motherboard serial number. With a Dell motherboard, you need to run a small utility program to change the service tag. Once the serial numbers are identical between old and new motherboards, who's to know the difference. .... Ben Myers On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:17:26 GMT, "Doc" wrote: Putting a replacement mobo in a Compaq Deskpro EN PIII WinXP Home, theoretically identical to the original mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S? Not sure if there are identifiers in a particular mobo that the O/S needs to "see". Thanks. |
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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
"Ben Myers" wrote:
[...] With a Dell motherboard, you need to run a small utility program to change the service tag. How does one get that utility? *TimDaniels* |
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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
"Timothy Daniels" wrote in message news "Ben Myers" wrote: [...] With a Dell motherboard, you need to run a small utility program to change the service tag. How does one get that utility? *TimDaniels* In the group alt.sys.pc-clone.dell find *change service tag -- notan ??? * read the entire thread. |
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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
wrote in message oups.com... Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime. You will learn to fish kony old boy! NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.129.166.247 Playing with your sockpuppets today? |
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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
asset.com at the Dell ftp site. Runs as a DOS command line program, with the
usual command line help... Ben Myers On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:11:15 -0700, "Timothy Daniels" wrote: "Ben Myers" wrote: [...] With a Dell motherboard, you need to run a small utility program to change the service tag. How does one get that utility? *TimDaniels* |
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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
"Doc" wrote:
wrote: Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime. You will learn to fish kony old boy! NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.129.166.247 Playing with your sockpuppets today? LOL Old KoRny has keyboard diarhea. He can't control his spewing and pontificating. He really NEEDS to get a life. *TimDaniels* |
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When installing a replacement mobo, will I have to reinstall the O/S?
Doc wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime. You will learn to fish kony old boy! NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.129.166.247 Playing with your sockpuppets today? So this is why you still can't use a search engine as well as any 10 year old child? |
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