Motherboard upgrade--is XP Repair permanent?

I just replaced one ASUS Intel-basedmotherboard with a newer ASUS board
which has a different chipset and drivers. Naturally it wouldn't boot onto
XP SP2. So, I repaired Windows with my Microsoft XP SP1 disk (not Reovery
but Repair), skipping all sorts of files along the way that couldn't be
found. After the repair, it did boot up into a barely functioning SP1
version. I then loaded all the new ASUS-Intel chipset drivers and rebooted
successfully. I reactivated XP. I was unable to do an SP2 upgrade through
the usual automatic MS update page, so I DL'ed the entire SP2 file from
Microsoft and upgraded successfully to SP2.

Everything worked, and I dodged the bullet, right? Wrong.

Now, 2 weeks later, things are starting to act up a bit. I got a USB voltage
error message that has just gone away.Then, the bult-in LAN didn't work--it
said the cable was disconnected, which it wasn't. That's working again, now.

I then called the always helpful ASUS tech support people who walked me
through everything. The tech, a very sympathetic fellow, said, "You are
going to have problems eventually. I have never seen a Repair like this work
permanently, usually not after a couple months. Windows is going to start
looking for the old inf files from the old MB chipset. It is very difficult
to get rid of them because both boards are Intel, but they are throughout
your registry. You will either have to do a clean XP install after backing
up all your data, or else call Microsoft tech support and pay for about a
3-4 hour phone session while they walk you through the registry repair
process to get rid of all the old board's registry entries."

Is the ASUS guy right? Should I do a clean install? Is there anything
written about how to do such a registry repair without having to call
Microsoft?

Thanks very much.

Ken



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