Re: OT: Motherboard replacement without reinstalling Opsys

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Manuel

I have replaced a motherboard in the past with Windows 2000 with no
problems, though I did find later that I was not making full use of the
power saving facilities in the bios because that required certain
operating system components that could only be loaded during a full
install. Problems can arise with chipset drivers and it may be worth
removing some specific motherboard drivers and replacing with generic
microsoft drivers before swapping. However I think most differences on
the new board should be picked up by W2k after the swap. That said,
there is always going to be a chance of failure.


Paul Breeze

Manuel Castelao wrote:
> Excuse me for going definitely off topic but I would like to hear our
> gurus on this matter: is it possible to replace a motherboard without
> reinstalling the whole Opsys and apps? If it is necessary to rebuild the
> whole system, I am not going to spend time I don't have in that matter
> because it's possible to install the opsys again (W2000 in my case) but
> all the programs I am running it's too much (configurations, patches,
> customizations, etc.). I have seen this page
> (http://www.motherboard.windowsreinstall.com/win2k.htm) but I would like
> to receive confirmation that it's good and wise advice before getting
> myself into really hot water (and with no way back). Maybe someone on
> the list has attempted to do that in the past and was successful.
> By the way: attempting to prepare the terrain, I ran Partition Manager's
> 8.01 partition info tool and I received these messages: "Warning #113:
> EPBR partition starting at 83538001 overlaps previous EPBR partition",
> "Logical starting at 83538126 is not one head away from EPBR" and
> "extended volume. Error #114: Logical starting at 100984653 is not one
> head away from EPBR". Fortunately, those messages refer to the limit
> between a linux swap and a data FAT32 partition, not to the main program
> partition (C:) but partition magic is apparently unable to solve the
> problem because it sees the whole disk as defective and then I can't
> erase those partitions and create them again. Grenier's Test Disk
> doesn't detect any problem and I have been working without any problem
> for years. Can someone suggest a good partition tool to make a further
> diagnostic?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
> Manuel Castelao