Upgrading MB & CPU

[Dominick]

I know when I upgraded MB's and CPU in older OS's(Win9x)
there would be all kinds of motherboard resource
conflicts and the OS would be very buggy after and the
only way to fix was a clean install. My question is, How
will XP perform after a MB upgrade?? Anyone done it?? I
just dont want to go thru the XP activation issues.

Thanks

[PaulM]

You will have to do a Repair Install.
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) (Repair) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

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"Dominick" > wrote in message
...
> I know when I upgraded MB's and CPU in older OS's(Win9x)
> there would be all kinds of motherboard resource
> conflicts and the OS would be very buggy after and the
> only way to fix was a clean install. My question is, How
> will XP perform after a MB upgrade?? Anyone done it?? I
> just dont want to go thru the XP activation issues.
>
> Thanks

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the old one
(same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.), you'll
need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at
the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.


Bruce Chambers

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"Dominick" > wrote in message
...
> I know when I upgraded MB's and CPU in older OS's(Win9x)
> there would be all kinds of motherboard resource
> conflicts and the OS would be very buggy after and the
> only way to fix was a clean install. My question is, How
> will XP perform after a MB upgrade?? Anyone done it?? I
> just dont want to go thru the XP activation issues.
>
> Thanks