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Changing To Gigabyte Motherboard Question?
Hello,
I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to. Any advise would be appreciated as always. Thank you! |
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:41:49 -0400, Breck Fontaine
wrote: Hello, I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to. Any advise would be appreciated as always. Thank you! I should have mentioned that the hard drive has my Windows XP operating system and Biostar M7NCD motherboard drivers on it. |
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"Breck Fontaine" wrote in message ... Hello, I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to. Any advise would be appreciated as always. Thank you! Probably have to re-activate XP with M$. |
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Shouldn't have to reactivate XP, just run a "repair" from XP CD.
Don't delete any drivers, after the "repair" just install the m/b drivers for the Gigabyte. I've recently just done this with the same m/b and an Athlon 64 3200. -- Kenny Cargill "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs." "beenthere" wrote in message ... "Breck Fontaine" wrote in message ... Hello, I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to. Any advise would be appreciated as always. Thank you! Probably have to re-activate XP with M$. |
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:41:49 -0400, Breck Fontaine
wrote: Hello, I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to. Any advise would be appreciated as always. Thank you! In Add/remove programs, the "nVidia Drivers" entry (might vary slightly in it's wording from one version of the drivers to the next), should be remoevd. When you click the Change/Remove button, a special nVidia box should pop up to select what you want to change. Remove ALL drivers including display. This should be the last thing you do before pulling the drive out, don't then boot the system again to that motherboard. |
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WHENEVER you change the motherboard in a system where a version of Windows
was the OS on the harddrive, then after changing the motherboard you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you can look forward to Registry errors and data corruption on an ongoing basis. -- DaveW ---------------- "Breck Fontaine" wrote in message ... Hello, I am building a new system going from a Biostar M7NCD board to a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Not a big change but still a change. My question is regarding moving my hard drive to the new motherboard that will require new chipset drivers and so on. What drivers associated with the Biostar motherboard should I delete? If no one can advise me is there a website or forum I could be directed to. Any advise would be appreciated as always. Thank you! |
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:30:01 -0700, "DaveW"
wrote: WHENEVER you change the motherboard in a system where a version of Windows was the OS on the harddrive, then after changing the motherboard you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you can look forward to Registry errors and data corruption on an ongoing basis. For laughs, do a Google search to see how many times DaveW has made this false statement, how many times others have corrected it, and how nobody has ever come back and claimed they had "registry errors and data corruption" as a result. At worst, windows doesn't finish loading... usually due to not having the driver controller identified and a driver for it present. Google will show how to overcome this. |
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Thank you for everyone's help. I will try to remove the drivers before
I unplug everything. In worse case scenario if needed I will reformat and reinstall Windows XP. I never tried to move the OS and close to 160 programs before. I post back in a week or so if anyone is interested. Thanks again! On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:30:01 -0700, "DaveW" wrote: WHENEVER you change the motherboard in a system where a version of Windows was the OS on the harddrive, then after changing the motherboard you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you can look forward to Registry errors and data corruption on an ongoing basis. |
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Thanks for everyones help. I have it built and all I did was delete
the previuos chipset drivers. You were correct Kony! All I have to do is call Microsoft to reactivate my Windows XP, I have 3 days to do so. Thanks again! On Thu, 18 May 2006 01:47:54 -0400, Breck Fontaine wrote: Thank you for everyone's help. I will try to remove the drivers before I unplug everything. In worse case scenario if needed I will reformat and reinstall Windows XP. I never tried to move the OS and close to 160 programs before. I post back in a week or so if anyone is interested. Thanks again! On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:30:01 -0700, "DaveW" wrote: WHENEVER you change the motherboard in a system where a version of Windows was the OS on the harddrive, then after changing the motherboard you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you can look forward to Registry errors and data corruption on an ongoing basis. |
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