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Asus P4S800D-X???
Think’in about getting this board and wondering if i have to install
this with a clean hardrive or can i just connect the hardrive from soyo mboard(OS winxp) to new board? I also have PNY DDR 2700: 1x 512mb and 2x 256mb will i able to use them all in asus mobo? wondering the pros and cons of this asus mb for those who have/had them? thanks. -- Posted using the http://www.hardwareforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/ASUS-P...pict59774.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/eform.php?p=302339 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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First of all, you realize that the "S" in the P4S800D-X designation means
that the motherboard uses an SIS brand chipset? I would NOT recommend that. Get an Asus board that uses an Intel chipset so that you avoid the reliability and timing errors you would otherwise run into. AND, if you replace the motherboard in a computer whose harddrive had Windows installed, then you HAVE to reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS if you want to avoid nasty Registry errors and data corruption. Not to mention the failure of the system to boot. -- DaveW "mikk" wrote in message news:7_302339_bcbf2e52db23ef42eaff90902d165c54@har dwareforumz.com... Think'in about getting this board and wondering if i have to install this with a clean hardrive or can i just connect the hardrive from soyo mboard(OS winxp) to new board? I also have PNY DDR 2700: 1x 512mb and 2x 256mb will i able to use them all in asus mobo? wondering the pros and cons of this asus mb for those who have/had them? thanks. -- Posted using the http://www.hardwareforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/ASUS-P...pict59774.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/eform.php?p=302339 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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"DaveW" wrote in message ... First of all, you realize that the "S" in the P4S800D-X designation means that the motherboard uses an SIS brand chipset? I would NOT recommend that. Get an Asus board that uses an Intel chipset so that you avoid the reliability and timing errors you would otherwise run into. AND, if you replace the motherboard in a computer whose harddrive had Windows installed, then you HAVE to reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS if you want to avoid nasty Registry errors and data corruption. Not to mention the failure of the system to boot. -- DaveW SNIP Please ignore above comments; they're simply not true. The standard method of moving from one chipset to another is to do a Repair install of XP on the new motherboard, then install the chipset drivers. It's sometimes a good idea also to remove chipset-specific drivers from the installation before doing the switch (i.e. replace them with the XP-generic drivers), although normally the repair installation will sort this out. Any number of us on this NG have done this; why DaveW persists in giving this mis-information is a mystery, it serves only to put people off upgrading. Regards, Steve. |
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