Odds of building PC without formatting/new os

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I cant find my windows CD, and im gonna be building my new system tomorrow, (well, upgrading main components).

Whats the odds that it will boot up ok with my current xp install?

Does it cause many problems? or would driver cleaner and updated drivers do the trick?
 
Energize said:
I couldn't even boot up when I changed from SA to S939 and that was with the same make of motherboard.
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Ah man this aint good lol, ive always done fresh installs in the past, but thought there might be a chance it would just... ya know.... work! :D
 
There is a way of doing this, it involves-

Removing chipset ide driver and just letting windows install standered drivers, it might also be a good idea to remove any other drivers too,

Once ide drivers are removed and standered ones installed swap motherboards and boot machine.

If it works for you and it loads up windows it should just be a simple case of installing new drivers.

This method doesn't work for everyone but myself and others have had success, But then again nothing can beat a fresh install ;)
 
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pumaz said:
There is a way of doing this, it involves-

Removing chipset ide driver and just letting windows install standered drivers, it might also be a good idea to remove any other drivers too,

Once ide drivers are removed and standered ones installed swap motherboards and boot machine.

If it works for you and it loads up windows it should just be a simple case of installing new drivers.

This method doesn't work for everyone but myself and others have had success, But then again nothing can beat a fresh install ;)
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That worked for me too. I upgraded motherboard, RAM and graphics at the same time (although still a S939 board, the new one was PCI-E). I did exactly as above, downloaded new drivers, and windows ran pretty much ok.

I have formatted and re-installed since the upgrade though, as I had another problem (unfortunately the problem was HDD so re-install didn't solve anything).
 
Try,

Install the whole group of new components, go into the OS install Select the partition that your OS is on, and instead of wipe and install over, click on repair, done it once of twice at work and it works okey :)
 
Wouldn't even attempt it. If replacing a motherboard I'd do at least a repair install of XP, if not a full clean install.
 
Hedge said:
Could someone give me a quick step by step on how to attempt this please? :)
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1) On your current setup un-install all your drivers including chipset, sound and video. Windows should automaticly install standered IDE drivers when you remove your drivers (check that you have standered drivers installed under device manager)

2) Turn off your PC and upgrade motherboard etc.

3) Turn on your PC, if it boots to Windows, install new motherboard, sound and video drivers and your good to go :)

4) If it doesn't boot to Windows Format and Install from scratch ;)

It's really easy and if your time limited you may as well give it a go, What have you got to lose?

PS. a repair install is not that great and quite slow, I really wouldn't bother. Nothing will ever beat a fresh install but i do believe the method above is the next best thing if it works for you :)
 
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