XP and new motherboard

[Khairul]

I plan to replace my existing board to accomodate a better CPU and have more PCI slots and USB 2.0 ports. I'm not sure whether this would require a total reinstallation of XP or repair installation will do. ideally, everything will be automatically detected and XP installing the drivers e.g. P & P.

[s7p9a2m4]

You will most certainly need to do a repair install at the least to associate Xp with the new hardware.

[snowmonkey]

look at these two link,, it will give you an idea about what you will be faceing when and if you change a mobo in Windows XP OS:

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/inst...oard/winxp.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q302577

unless you want to run SYSPREP beforeinstalling you new mobo,, which I don't think you would want.


cheers