Re: Hardware Upgrade and Installation

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Take out the old motherboard and put the new one in....

This wont cause you to lose any programs or data. Make sure to back
everything up before the swap. Keep in mind that once the new mobo is
installed you may have to reactivate XP.

Once the new mobo is installed XP will boot and start installing all the new
drivers...

psg
"bing" <bing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0D2335C1-F5BA-409D-9FFD-ED06B3CAC243@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi! I have old machine running Win XP prof. I want to upgrade the
> Mothetboard
> and the CPU. How to do it without loosing all my programs, Data and
> Application that installed in this Computer. What I mean without formating
> my
> hardrive. Thanks a lot...


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