lazy upgrade, is it do able?

lokiguesty

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Hi all

wanna do an upgrade on the GF's PC.

i have a spare Mobo and cpu that are much better than what she has.

BUT

im feeling lazy and cant be bothered to do a back up of all her stuff, format the HD install the new comps and rebuild the software on the system,

so, is it possible to replace the mobo and cpu, install the mobo drivers over the top of the old drivers and use the pc as it is?

or will this make it incredibly unstable?

any tips or ideas appreciated

Loki
 
Could work, could not work

Who knows....

However could try it and if it is unstable then proceed with the format and redo it
 
Protecting end user data is the main priority in any job like this.

I once sacked a spotty little oik who was too lazy to do a similar job properly and lost a lot of someone's work.

Although it is end users' responsibility to secure their business critical data, at the end of the day they have a right to expect a degree of competence from IT experts. At the very least to be given a chance to copy their data somewhere before anything even remotely risky is done.

It's all about customer care.

Do you want to make your girlfriend an EX-girlfriend. Be lazy and it might happen.

Edit: PS you KNOW what you need to do :)

2nd Edit: I am still using Win2k on 2004 hardware simply because I can't face rebuilding the damned thing with new hardware and XP, whose OEM licence 3-pack I bought over a year ago :(
 
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I tried this not a week ago on my sisters computer - tried to swap an nforce4 mobo with an AMD X2 with and nforce 7 with a C2Q CPU without reinstalling windows. Needless to say, it didn't load into windows. Luckily I backed up all of her important stuff beforehand onto my PC.
I recommend not trying the lazy way, back up everything she needs onto external disk or your PC then reinstall windows. Then she gets some slick new hardware and some factory fresh software, everyone wins (except for you of course as you'll be doing it :).
 
Back it up - it hardly takes a lot of your time.

External drive in
Select important folders
CTRL+C
Open external drive
CTRL+V
Go watch TV for 45 minutes.
 
Ive only managed to make this work once but that was when i changed motherboards that ran the same chipset. I wont advise this just do it properly.
 
It might help if you actually told us what board is in the said pc at the moment and what board you're thinking of replacing it with. For example if the original board has say an Intel ICHR7 southbridge and you're putting in one with the Intel ICHR9 it should work, you'd just need to uninstall old chipset drivers and install latest one. However if you wanted to replace say a Nforce chipset board with an Intel one, you could well be struggling.
 
its some sort of dodgy compaq pc so god knows what is inside it, i'l be replacing it with a gigabyte motherboard that will have a E6600 Intel cpu in it, sorry i cant remember te exact model number of he motherboard.
 
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