Author Topic: New mobo: was REALLY surprised when this worked. (Read 412 times)

beet1e · « **on:** January 29, 2003, 03:49:03 AM »

I spent my working years in IT - programming, DB admin. One of the most confusing and worrying scenarios would be when something worked that shouldn't have worked!

I've made up my mind to upgrade my mobo/CPU/RAM. Now when Tomato did this about 6 months ago, she put in an A7V333, and did not reinstall Windows. I was so surprised to hear that everything worked. Windows went through a whole load of detection crap, but everything worked!

I would have thought at the very least, Windows reinstall would have been needed.

When I built a system recently, I used a hard disk which I saved from a clapped out system (166MHz, Preon5 mobo ) as the HDD wasn't very old. I used the same mobo as Tomato's for the build - A7V333 - and just for the hell of it tried booting off the HDD. It did not work. (W-Me was on there BTW) The system just hung after POST. It didn't matter because there was nothing worth saving on the HDD, so I reformatted and then installed W2000 Pro etc., and everything was fine.

Given that I'd be upgrading Asus to Asus (A7V133 to A7V8X), what can I expect? Will I get away with it, or will my system hang and need reinstall of Windows?

blackfalcon4 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 29, 2003, 06:46:55 AM »

I'd do a clean install, no questions asked, might save ya some headaches down the road.

boxboy28 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2003, 08:48:30 AM »

On my own personal PC with XP pro on it, i went from an AOPEN board to ASUS A7V8X - once i put everything together i powered it up it loaded every thing up fine. (windows reloads all the new drivers) both boards had Via chip sets too.

Box

DES · « **Reply #3 on:** January 29, 2003, 03:02:02 PM »

Works about 75% of the time for me. Best chance to get away with it is stay intel to intel or via to via. I always delete everything in device manager before shutting down. A couple years ago I had a fic VA-503+ board that I could never get windows to load on, when I wanted to reinstall I'd open it up and hook the hardrive to my spare pc , load windows then hook it back to the fic board.

DES

icemaw · « **Reply #4 on:** January 29, 2003, 05:06:12 PM »

Same for me I had a mother board meltdown. Cooling fan fell of onto mother board fried chip and board. Installed new board and chip power up windows XP detected every thing no problem. Didnt have to reinstall anything.

Dinger · « **Reply #5 on:** January 29, 2003, 10:16:03 PM »

I did it once with win98 SE -- went to a new CPU/MB combo with the old install. Yeah, it grumbled, the lights dimmed, but it worked.
That said, don't do it unless in an emergency.
When you upgrade, if you don't have a second hard drive, buy one. install onto the new hard drive, and then migrate your other crap over.
I mean, you can do it, but you're taking all those months and years of accumulated windows crap, and your putting it in a foreign system. Take advantage of the fresh hardware for a fresh sw install.

SKurj · « **Reply #6 on:** January 30, 2003, 12:11:07 AM »

I went from an asus a7v, to an MSI turbo 2, basically the same chipset, and didn't reinstall windows (XP pro) no problems at all.

Booted and XP detected everything fine. I'd imagine a chipset change may not go so smoothly tho

SKurj