Will my recovery cd work

deadly raccoon · 2 Feb 2006 at 21:19

Hi all

just a quick question if I was to upgrade my mother board and procceser,

currently running
Motherboard Name ECS 648FX-A AGP
CPU Type INTEL Pentium 4, 3000 MHz 478 SOCKET
160gb hard drive
2g corsair ram
5200fx graphics card

To
Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-118-AS)
&
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4400CDBOX) (CP-127-AM)

Would i be able to use my current window restore cd?

If not please could some one spec my a upgrade, I only play games (bf2), I dont need any ram as i currently have a decent 2gb corsair matching pair.

Thanks in advance for your help.

wesley · 2 Feb 2006 at 21:57

it may work but its best if u do fresh install winXP

how can u play BF2 with FX5200 card? lol

deadly raccoon · 2 Feb 2006 at 22:02

its a lot of hard work

its a lot of hard work :rolleyes:

wesley · 3 Feb 2006 at 08:45

thanks for the " :rolleyes:

"

it will work but you will have problems, its always recommeneded to re-install winXP when u change the motherboard anyway

ChrisLX200 · 3 Feb 2006 at 11:02

Nothing wrong with the spec of your new kit, but you would be lucky to get Windows to load if you put the old restore image back - it will likely lockup while loading some of the now irrelevant device drivers. You could try a 'repair install' after restoring the disk image, but you be leaving a lot of old files on the machine. Better to do a fresh install if poss.