motherboard swap... sis to via

[Titanion]

On my 3rd LAN computer is a crappy Matsonic 8308EP motherboard with a sis chipset that will not support my Ti4200... but a friend just gave me a crappy Jetway 867AS motherboard with a via chipset that ran his Ti4200 for the last few years... I am wanting to make the motherboard swap as painless as possible... i.e., not having to do a complete reformat/install...

Any suggestions?

<font color=red><b>NF7-S/MBarton 2500+
210x11.5 1.82v SP-97
GB Corsair XMS PC3200
BBA 9800 Pro 423/369</font color=red><font color=black>
NF7-S/MBarton 2600+
210x11.5 1.76v
512MB CVR PC3200
Sapphire 9500@9700

 

[Titanion]

It has XPSP2, but that is the standard now, so it is likely assumed...

<font color=red><b>NF7-S/MBarton 2500+
210x11.5 1.82v SP-97
GB Corsair XMS PC3200
BBA 9800 Pro 423/369</font color=red><font color=black>
NF7-S/MBarton 2600+
210x11.5 1.76v
512MB CVR PC3200
Sapphire 9500@9700

 

[fishmahn]

I've never done this myself, but I've been told:

Just before swapping out the mobo: Go into device manager and delete/uninstall all the motherboard devices.

Swap components.

When you boot up again, it should detect the new components and install drivers.

At least that's how I remember it...

Mike.

 

[sparky853]

What Fishmahn says is correct, but you will liekly lose some performance over doing a clean install.

Systems Running F@H:
AMD: [A64 3200+] [XP2800+] [XP2400+]
Intel: [P4 2.8 x3] [P4 1.8] [P4 1.7] [P4 1.6 x2] [P4 1.4M] [Xeon 1.0] [Cel 1.0] [P3 ??]

 

[endyen]

It's probably easier if you do a repair install. Just boot to the xp cd, and act like you are doing a clean install, till after it checks the drive. Then select repair install.

 

[markgun]

sysprep

 

[Titanion]

I just noticed some leakage on a few of the compasitors located below the cpu on this motherboard... do leaking compasitors mean it is a bad board... could it still be fine but just got too hot for a bit...

<font color=red><b>NF7-S/MBarton 2500+
210x11.5 1.82v SP-97
GB Corsair XMS PC3200
BBA 9800 Pro 423/369</font color=red><font color=black>
NF7-S/MBarton 2600+
210x11.5 1.76v
512MB CVR PC3200
Sapphire 9500@9700

 

[Rugger]

At a minimum, it will be unstable. You can replace the caps, but a better option is just to get a new board.

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[endyen]

Those capacitors control the voltage to the chip. Do you want to see if you chip likes variable voltages? Can you say fried green chips?