Mobo upgrade without XP Reinstall?

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Morning all,

I'm planning on upgrading my home PC and am after a little advice.

I'm currently running an Nforce2 based mobo (Asus A7N8X-E) with an Athlon XP 3200+ chip and AGP graphics card.

I'm going to be upgrading to an Nforce3 based mobo (Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA)with an AMD X2 6000 chip, still with an AGP card (albeit a newer one).

I'm planning on uninstalling the existing Nforce drivers and graphics drivers prior to the final shutdown, swapping the hardware and powering back on.

Can I reasonably expect XP to handle this gracefully?

I know that an XP reinstall is advisable but it would take an age to get things back configured how they currently are, not to mention all the XP updates.

Does anyone have any advice on performing this kind of hardware swap while avoiding a reinstall?

Rob
 
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Thanks for the advice everyone.

I've had quite a few people advise performing a Repainr installation of Win XP following the changeover.

I'm going to back it all up, remove any system specific drivers and devices from Device Manager and then give it a try.

First I need to order the parts.... :)

RM
 
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