Is it possible to change your motherboard without reinstalling windows xp? It's not too hard I believe but google keeps giving me "no it can't lolz" results.
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Simple unplug the computer, remove all expansion cards like graphics and whatever remove the mobo, put the new one in, put all the cards in, connect the hard drives and away you go.
It might ask you to register again, I changed my uncles CPU, Mobo and GFX card and it worked fine, no new install needed.
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Anonymouse2006-11-15 21:40
Wether you can or not? Probobly can. ESPECIALLY if your using a similar processor. you'll probobly have to reactivate windows, and even then, since the CPU and motherboard drivers are different, it may think half your computer isnt working right. its really much better to spend the hour and a half reinstalling than spend days figureing out what cryptically named drivers come from where.
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Anonymous2006-11-16 0:21
I have done it.
It works in a loose sense of the word "works"
By that I mean, you have do re-load all your drivers, and things never run correctly afterwards until you reformat/re-install XP.
look for Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 314082 on... intuitavley enough www.microsoft.com
done it before and went from p3 to p4 :P
cause as it says in the article, windows loads the ide drivers first to speed up boottimes. and when it loads the wrong driver (due to different device) it screws up