How to switch motherboard without reinstalling Windows XP

[apvm]

As title...Present motherboard is a P35 Intel chipset based...moving to AMD 770 chipset.

XP has SP3 installed so the Repair option from XP CD is not valid.

Anyone done this before? Tia

[YukonTrooper]

It's usually a good idea to do a clean install if you're switching to a whole new platform, but you should be able to get by, by uninstalling all your Intel chipset drivers, shutting down, switching platforms, then booting back up again and letting Windows auto install all the necessary drivers.

[Perineum]

I swap client machines all the time, but after the motherboard swap I do a repair install and it works for me, SP3 or not

[Squeetard]

You need to remove the intelide.sys file from windows\system32\drivers before you shut down and swap boards. Or it will crash on boot.

[Shadowmeph]

Originally Posted by Squeetard

You need to remove the intelide.sys file from windows\system32\drivers before you shut down and swap boards. Or it will crash on boot.

really I didn't know that this is going to come in handy for when I replace a few mother board

[Cheator]

Originally Posted by Perineum

I swap client machines all the time, but after the motherboard swap I do a repair install and it works for me, SP3 or not

This would be good.

The method I use is I isntall the chipset drivers of the new mobo before I install it. IT usually works. If its the same chipset you won't have an issue.

[Perineum]

I'm going to try sqeetards method next time, as that's much faster, providing I get a machine that is actually bootable to work on. Other than that, I take apart the dead machine, put in the new motherboard and parts and do a repair install.

The repair install was only not needed once in my experience when using completely different motherboards and it was a complete fluke.

Naturally if you're using a P5K-EM and then move up to a P5K-Deluxe it'll likely just boot up because they are not that dissimilar.

The one that gets me is when you boot up to do a repair install and you go to select the install after booting up off the WinXP cd and it says the parition contains "unknown" instead of "windowsxp". Not sure how to repair them....

[gingerbee]

questions ( sorry ) with the squeetard way just remove that and it will boot so that you can load the drivers correct? ( I have only done it if it's in the same family say p35 to p45 )

[Squeetard]

I did the swap and computer would blue screen on loading xp. Found that solution online and it worked. Booted ubuntu and deleted that file, away it went.

[clone63]

Quite a handy thread. Don't use Vista/7 but I wonder if it is any different.