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| Thread ID: 68131 | 2006-04-19 00:30:00 | Installing new motherboard with different chipset without reinstalling windows? | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 447245 | 2006-04-19 00:30:00 | I want to upgrade my old Via K8T800 chipset board to an nForce 3, problem is I don't really want to reinstall windows.... (as I'd later upgrade again to socket 939, pci-e etc and need a reinstall anyway) I know I could get away with this if the new board was via chipset but as it is, it isn't. I was wondering if it would be possible to install the chipset/sata drivers for the new board, pull the old one out and then stick the new one in, and have it actually boot windows. has anyone done this with good results? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 447246 | 2006-04-19 00:36:00 | Yeah I have heard of some who install the drivers while its still on the old board.. and then thrown it onto new board. Unsure how successful they were though. | Myth (110) | ||
| 447247 | 2006-04-19 00:51:00 | It's just the same as moving a HHD with windows to a different computer: www.brienposey.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 447248 | 2006-04-19 01:13:00 | It's just the same as moving a HHD with windows to a different computer: www.brienposey.com Will the operation described on that website work with SATA HDD's? I'm asking because a friend once uninstalled his SATA drivers while trying to upgrade them and couldn't boot xp up (got a Bsod straight away) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 447249 | 2006-04-19 01:15:00 | Doing a repair install MAY work. Probably won't though, XP doesn't like it - every time I've had to do it, its ended up being a fresh install. | pctek (84) | ||
| 447250 | 2006-04-19 01:21:00 | I did a repair ages ago for something and that worked, but that was with an IDE drive, on the same computer I guess if I tell it to load the new SATA drivers at repair time it should install them and actually work anyway it's worth a try, at worst i'll have to reinstall windows. I've also heard something about different hardware profiles in windows, not too sure what this is, but would this possibly have anything to do with what I want? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 447251 | 2006-04-19 01:23:00 | I want to upgrade my old Via K8T800 chipset board to an nForce 3, problem is I don't really want to reinstall windows . . . . (as I'd later upgrade again to socket 939, pci-e etc and need a reinstall anyway) I know I could get away with this if the new board was via chipset but as it is, it isn't . I was wondering if it would be possible to install the chipset/sata drivers for the new board, pull the old one out and then stick the new one in, and have it actually boot windows . has anyone done this with good results? Ghost it first, run sysprep (with the shutdown option), move drive to new mobo . Should work (well I have a ghost image that has been sysprep'd that seems okay with SATA - the master PC is an old Pentium 3) . You probably need to copy the drivers into place though . Quite technical though and lots of trial and error . . . so maybe a repair install might be easier in the end . |
gibler (49) | ||
| 447252 | 2006-04-19 02:27:00 | I would suggest doing it this way: Buy the cheapest PCI SATA controller you can find. Install it with no drives attached to it. Boot machine install drivers for PCI SATA card. Shutdown Machine. Move Hard drives to new PCI controller. Boot Machine, shutdown machine. Move PCI SATA controller and drives to new machine Boot machine Install drivers for chipset, motherboard, etc. Shutdown machine Move drives to motherboard SATA controller Boot machine, remove drivers for PCI SATA controller. Shutdown and then remove PCI SATA controller. Boot machine and create a system variable called devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices and give it a value of 1. Go into device manager and view hidden devices. You will find all the ones from your old system greyed out, uninstall them. Install all the drivers for you system, video, sound etc... Viola. |
BIFF (1) | ||
| 447253 | 2006-04-19 02:48:00 | I would suggest you will waste a hell of a lot of time. And then finish up reinstalling XP. | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 447254 | 2006-04-19 02:49:00 | Jack, this is a shortcut. It doesn't matter how much longer it takes. ;) | Graham L (2) | ||
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