Repair install or reformat?

[mjolnir1134]

Hello, I recently found out that you had to reformat your hard drive with Windows XP or something for swapping motherboards in your computer, now apparently I didn't do that.

The consequences of not reinstalling my OS after the mobo swap left my chipset drivers acting weird and not making me use my AGP card to its fullest potential (Dude, its lagging in Warcraft II, a 2d game! its a Radeon 9600pro Advantage 256mb card). All the peripherals I use are fine, just the chipset drivers are a tad screwed up for my AGP graphics.

I have an eMachines T2958 with WinXP Home SP2 and it only came with a stupid recovery CD. Sure, it has Windows XP in it, but It only has the chipset drivers for the old preinstalled motherboard I took out

Is this all I need to fix my computer?- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16837102151

And if it is, what do I need to do once I get this CD? And I heard there a three options in what to do? Repair, reformat, and reinstall?

Help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

[Disk_Contented]

Originally Posted by mjolnir1134

Hello, I recently found out that you had to reformat your hard drive with Windows XP or something for swapping motherboards in your computer, now apparently I didn't do that.

The consequences of not reinstalling my OS after the mobo swap left my chipset drivers acting weird and not making me use my AGP card to its fullest potential (Dude, its lagging in Warcraft II, a 2d game! its a Radeon 9600pro Advantage 256mb card). All the peripherals I use are fine, just the chipset drivers are a tad screwed up for my AGP graphics.

I have an eMachines T2958 with WinXP Home SP2 and it only came with a stupid recovery CD. Sure, it has Windows XP in it, but It only has the chipset drivers for the old preinstalled motherboard I took out

Is this all I need to fix my computer?- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16837102151

And if it is, what do I need to do once I get this CD? And I heard there a three options in what to do? Repair, reformat, and reinstall?

Help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Yes a repair would work, but why not just install the latest drivers?

[mjolnir1134]

Originally Posted by Disk_Contented

Yes a repair would work, but why not just install the latest drivers?

I have already installed all latest drivers for everything. But the thing is, I swapped motherboards without reinstalling XP. So that screws everything up.

[sasarchiver]

Do u have latest direct x and ati drivers installed? ur mobo may not like the ati card. try omega drivers from here http://www.omegadrivers.net/
i had to do this when i upgraded my sons pc. ASOCK mobo didnt like the ATI drivers....sasarchiver