Re: mobo upgrade
From: Opinicus (gezgin_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 04/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:42:58 +0300
"ian" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm just about to upgrade my motherboard from via
> chipset to a nvidia2 one ,now im thinking about just
> uninstalling all my via chipset drivers also uninstalling
> all my hardware and then replacing my motherboard,would
> this be a good idea.Only i don't want to reformat and
> reinstall WinXPpro
As someone else suggested, a repair install is at least worth a try. In my
case, the results were acceptable but not perfect. I lived with it until I
installed a new hard drive and replaced my DVD drives. The accumulated
weight of all these changes caused WinXP's system restore program to freak
out. (It couldn't make any restore points.) So I ended up backing up all my
files and then deleting the WinXP partition and reformatting the HD. The
resulting new installation went off without a hitch and my WinXP is as clean
as a whistle and purring like a contented cat.
Doing all the WinXP patches and upgrades and reinstalling all my software
did take me two days but you have to redo the patches and upgrades anyhow
when you do a reinstallation so that time lost doing that doesn't really
count.
Try a reinstallation and see if it works. If it doesn't, it's clean install
time.
-- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://www.kanyak.com
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