>>>Switching motherboards with windows XP - Urgent

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I have a system with an ASUS P4P800-E Pentium 4 motherboard. It has Windows
XP on a large IDE drive. I would like to update the motherboard to an ASUS
P5W DH-Deluxe board that has an Intel Core 2 Duo chip. The reason I picked
this board is it has 4 IDE slots and so it will allow me to retain all my
current drives etc.

My question is is what is the easiest way to "bring up the system" with the
new board. For example if I just install everything and reboot will it come
up in some kind of minimal mode (with errors).

I looked at the suppport chips:-
The P4P800 has a Northside controller using the Intel 82865PE 7 a Southside
Intel ICH5R
while the 5WP has a Northside Intel 975X and a Southside Intel ICH7R

Does anybody know if these are "close enough" to get the system up so I can
then install the proper new drivers from the supplied CD's.

How have othe people handeled swapping motherboards without changing hard
drives.


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