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facedownwh   12-29-2006 at 08:57:05 PM

Hey all. I'm new to these forums, but it looks like there's a ton of info here, so I wanted to give you guys a shot. I'm looking to upgrade my mobo and CPU, but not necessarily my hard drive. Can I just uprade the mobo and CPU with my hard drive the way it is now, with Windows and all? Or do I need a clean install or reformat or anything? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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Grumpy9117   12-29-2006 at 11:29:20 PM
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You usually do a Repair installation of WIndows XP to fix the hard drive controller (unless the new mobo has the same controller).

Grumpy

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facedownwh   12-30-2006 at 01:06:36 AM
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Oh, I see. I'm guessing that's not too difficult to do?

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Newf   01-01-2007 at 05:32:11 PM
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Thanks for a really handy website! 8)

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wolfgang70   01-09-2007 at 10:52:18 PM
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Hello,

Noob here.

I'm basically doing the same thing with one big exception. I recently moved and lost both my XP disc and my boot disc. I went ahead and ordered another copy of XP but it's XP home where as the old version is XP pro. Will the same technique work? I imagine not but I remain hopeful.

If not, how do I go about installing the new version of XP without losing all of the data currently on my HDDs?

It's a budget upgrade so I'm trying to keep as much stuff from my old system as possible.

Old stuff
Athlon XP 2600
geforce 6800 (128 meg version)
2 gigs of DDR 400 (2 sets of matched pair)
DVD burner
DVD-ROM
floppy/card reader
2 HDDs both Ultra 100s, both 80gig, one is 8mb cache and the other 2mb
420W psu

New stuff
Socket 939 board (don't want to upgrade to AM2 to keep my DRAM)
Athlon 64 3000 (brother's old CPU)
BFG 7600 GT (Had to seeing as how everything is PCI-express nowadays)
450W psu to handle the amps needed for the new video card

All of my games and much of my other stuff is on the HDD with the 8mb cache while mostly media is on the other HDD.

Any suggestions?

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facedownwh   01-09-2007 at 11:28:21 PM
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There's a bunch of websites out there for this. Here's one: http://www.theeldergeek.com/replace_motherboard.htm It looks pretty good to me. I haven't tried it yet. I'm probably just gonna do a clean install. But if your question is can an XP Home cd work for repairing an XP Pro system? I don't know. My guess is probably no. You can always back up all your critical data and then do a clean install. That's what I'm gonna do.

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deadlysushi   02-01-2007 at 12:34:46 PM
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A clean install is required in both cases. A repair will probably work but your comp system will not be as quick or optimized as it should be.
Bottom line you should do a CLEAN install for best performance. :wink:

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facedownwh   02-01-2007 at 06:56:11 PM
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Yeah, thanks man. I appreciate the input. It's old news for me though. :wink: I already did my build and reinstalled Windows fresh. Worked well. Thanks though!

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edklite   02-03-2007 at 01:09:56 AM
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yes repair works on all xp and never do a fresh install if you dont' need to do so, only noobs reinstall as soon as there is problem ;)

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wag2639   10-11-2007 at 08:14:11 AM
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Does anyone know what will happen if I upgrade my Core 2 Duo core to a Core 2 Quad core or different Duo? Will I need to run certain windows utilities to get it to detect and accept the difference?

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