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204252	2003-12-31 17:10:00	Thank you Elephant.That is what I have been looking for. Why pull out the power cables though? My thoughts were leave them in place and remove them from old board one at a time and insert them into the new board. That way I should get each one fitted where it belongs. I can remove both sides of my case. As everyone strongly recomends re-installing Windows XP I have decided to fit the new serial drive at the same time. My idea was to try and run on old HD and then if things work out OK to install new one and then do a full disc transfer. About 20 gb's to shift. Jack	JJJJJ (528)
204253	2004-01-01 02:42:00	i have upgraded to this motherboard recently. i went to XP2500 barton. just some points. it will run 333 ram happily. it will run parallel AND serial disks, although other 'experts' who have tried to mix and match serial and parallel on same board find that won't work. So if you have plenty of disk capacity suggest staying with parallel for now as performance gain with serial is minimal and it would save cash & simplify things. disk upgrades are easy to do later. you would still need to reinstall OS though as new cpu and chipset (nvidia nforce2) will neccesitate this. i run well on 512MB of ram but we all want more . the biggy is, don't panic when the bios tells you the thing is over heating. and it will indicate this. it isn't though and software readers will tell you it's running ok. the touch test confirms bios inaccuracy.	jontext88 (1430)
204254	2004-01-01 17:57:00	My intention is to initialy start the machine with the old drive. I will remove all drivers etc. before final shutdown. Then I think that on first start with new system windows xp will be forced to search for drivers . I can't see any reason why this will not work. I may be (probably am) wrong, but it doesn't realy matter. If it won't run I will simply install the new drive and re-install everything. If it does run OK I will at some later stage do a disk transfer to the new drive. I have no worries about installing O/S and everything else. It's just the time involved. (and the number of cigarettes I will go through while waiting) In spite of what everyone says I am still worried about installing the new board and getting it wired up correctly. I can still remember very well the time and agony I spent when I accidently pulled the fron panel wireing from my M/B when instaling a new CD-RW. And I had the book in front of me as well. I just could not find the right pins. :p Still if I don't try I will never learn :) Jack.	JJJJJ (528)
204255	2004-01-01 22:43:00	The problem with removing the chipset drivers is that as you do XP just finds the hardware immediatly and reloads ths drivers straight back on... With luck the os may still boot when hooked up to different hardware but you will almost definitly have an unstable and poorly performing set-up. Which is exactly the situation i was in a month or so ago,upon booting with the new hardware i had to uninstall the chipset drivers and instal the new ones,Doing so corupted the drive file system and i lost everything. So i suggest you come up with a better plan. As for the plugs,Gigabyte boards come witha full colour fold-out that shows how it all goes together plain as day.	metla (154)
204256	2004-01-02 02:38:00	Metla, your last paragraph made my day. Just what I need. :D As for Windows I will just play it by ear. Honestly I fully expect to have to do a full re-install. But you can't blame me fof hoping. Jack	JJJJJ (528)
204257	2004-01-02 09:51:00	WELL. in my experience you dont need to reinstall windows. you dont need to unistall your drivers. ive done it myself, and if it hadnt worked, i wouldnt be typing this message. i had a crappy motherboard - with only 3 pci slots and nothing else, and 1 ram slot. (only supported intel, so thats a good reason to upgrade.) so i did - six PCI slots, 8X - 1X compatible AGP slot, and a CNR slot just because i can. 6 USB ports aswell. all the good stuff - supports up to 3 gigs of ram, and a 3000+ AMD Athlon XP. i shutdown the old system. i took the old board, ram and CPU out. i stuck the new motherboard, ram and CPU in. connected everything up, and it worked fine. (ok, so it took 10 minutes to install the new board, but after that - SWEET!!) anyway im not suggesting you did what i did (cause i didnt back anything up either) but all im trying to say, is replacing the board is probably not as bad as it seems (now everyone is going to kill me)... oh well..	agent_24 (4330)
204258	2004-01-02 11:44:00	I recently had a nasty incident involving a dodgy power supply which melted the power socket on the motherboard (GA-7vaxp) and wiping out my modem too. So what better time to upgrade! on to a nice GA-7n400 pro2 - upgrade appeared successful... ...until first boot. the internal speaker made a nasty sounding combination of beeps and shut down (later found to be cpu overheating). once booted winXP became very angry! Do Not try and boot up using old drivers!!!! a reformat of both my drives and reinstallation of xp, I finally saw the windows desktop !!! now i just hear these #crackling# sounds from my speakers??? wierd, maybe a dodgy wire somewhere! - although the worst thing i have ever seen was when thick smoke poured out of the case !! Buy a decent power supply is my advice!!!!!	lezel69 (5053)
204259	2004-01-02 21:56:00	yeah, i think what saved me was that both the motherboards had the same VIA chipsets that used the VIA 4 in 1 drivers - but i had to manually install the AGP slot, which confused me for a while - due to slow performance of a Geforce 4 that thought it was PCI and was running at the speed of a Geforce 2 MX 200.	agent_24 (4330)
204260	2004-01-02 22:02:00	yeah, i think what saved me was that both the motherboards had the same VIA chipsets that used the VIA 4 in 1 drivers - but i had to manually install the AGP slot, which confused me for a while - due to slow performance of a Geforce 4 TI4200 that thought it was PCI and was running at the speed of a Geforce 2 MX 200. (or something slow anyway) after i installed the 8X AGP slot, though, it worked like a charm, and is still going fine. (apart from the capacitor incident, which i refuse to talk about), its all good, as with the overheating - i upgraded my 4 in 1 drivers once, and immediately my cpu was running at 54 and above - usually 43 - 47 (AMD) so i quickly downgraded....	agent_24 (4330)
204261	2004-01-02 23:37:00	admittedly going on advice here but it is the chipset i am told that effectively changes the system. IE if it is a differnt chipset one usually has to reinstall windows. not a big deal really. image your data and you should be able to create your old system in few hours. heck linux users (i'm not one of them) format their disks and rebuild their system every week whether they need to or not.	jontext88 (1430)
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