Upgrading motherboard

[edmckay_doc]

I know this is a tired old question, but here it goes:

Previously I've only built new systems and done clean installs of windows. But soon I'm going to be upgrading my motherboard/processor/main memory, and would like to avoid doing a completely new install of XP (my current OS). I'm going to replace a few components after upgrading the mobo, but for the sake of simplicity plan to do the motherboard upgrade holding everything else constant (same sound card/graphics card/nic/etc...) Here's my idea--

Unload the old chipset drivers.

Shut down my computer.

Replace the mobo.

Boot Windows.

Let autodetect find the new chipset and read the drivers off my CD-ROM (this seems like it ought to work because I'm using a SCSI controller, and thus won't have to wait for the drivers to get loaded before accessing my CD-ROM drive).

Does anyone have any experience doing this? Might it work?

Thanks,

edmckay_doc

 

[Crashman]

That works great under 9x but not garunteed to work under XP. You can TRY that, but if you still have problems you'll have to try something else: I suggest a "repair installation", which reconfigures windows without loosing your data (or unregistering most programs).

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[endyen]

Make sure you remove the ide drivers as well.