I know I've seen this question asked all over the forums. My question though is can you uninstall the MOBO drivers before you switch MOBO's then do a repair reinstall on Win XP?
I've installed XP on a Abit NF7-S v2 (NF2 Chipset) and then taken the HD and booted both a EPoX 9NDA3+ (NF3-250GB) and a Asus A8N-SLI (NF4-SLI). I was a little surprised on the NF4 but since it was an IDE HD all it did was detect new devices and ask for any needed drivers.
I've installed XP on a Abit NF7-S v2 (NF2 Chipset) and then taken the HD and booted both a EPoX 9NDA3+ (NF3-250GB) and a Asus A8N-SLI (NF4-SLI). I was a little surprised on the NF4 but since it was an IDE HD all it did was detect new devices and ask for any needed drivers.
Cool, cause this HDD Is moving from an Intel 915 board to a Asus A8N-SLI board. Its IDE aswell.
Cool, cause this HDD Is moving from an Intel 915 board to a Asus A8N-SLI board. Its IDE aswell.
Notice my upgrades were all in the same Nvidia chipset family NF2 -> NF3 & NF2 -> NF4. The chipset driver was basically the same.
Going from an Intel chipset to a Nvidia Athlon 64 chipset is unlikely to work. But let us know if it does (or not). Uninstall your chipset driver first to give you the best possible chance of success
Notice my upgrades were all in the same Nvidia chipset family NF2 -> NF3 & NF2 -> NF4. The chipset driver was basically the same.
Going from an Intel chipset to a Nvidia Athlon 64 chipset is unlikely to work. But let us know if it does (or not). Uninstall your chipset driver first to give you the best possible chance of success
I am. What I'm going to do is uninstall them, install the new MOBO drivers, then when it asks for the reboot I'll pop in the new MOBO/CPU/RAM and see what happens.
Or would it be better to just uninstall the chipset drivers and do a repair install and wait till windows boots up (if its gonna) then load up the Asus drivers?
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I would say though that you may have stability issues without doing a new install.
Cool, cause this HDD Is moving from an Intel 915 board to a Asus A8N-SLI board. Its IDE aswell.
Going from an Intel chipset to a Nvidia Athlon 64 chipset is unlikely to work. But let us know if it does (or not). Uninstall your chipset driver first to give you the best possible chance of success
I am. What I'm going to do is uninstall them, install the new MOBO drivers, then when it asks for the reboot I'll pop in the new MOBO/CPU/RAM and see what happens.
Or would it be better to just uninstall the chipset drivers and do a repair install and wait till windows boots up (if its gonna) then load up the Asus drivers?
We should just answer every question like this, around here!