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From: Marten Kemp on 3 Mar 2006 07:58 Mike wrote: > I have an e machine with a dead motherboard. > I have an MSI PM8M-V that I'm planning on replacing it with. > Is there a painless way I can just pop the new MB in, replace some drivers & > go? There's no _completely_ painless way to do this; you'll wind up making some sort of a sacrifice to the gods of computer geekery, either blood from a dinged knuckle or sliced finger, or a dropped hard drive, or running over an important CD with your chair, or.... <grin> Ah, nevermind. I'm just in the process of building systems for donation out of all the old socket 7 parts I've got lying around. -- -- Marten Kemp (Fix name and ISP to reply) -=-=- .... There is only one Gosh, and Jeepers is His son. * TagZilla 0.059 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org
From: jamesa on 3 Mar 2006 21:30 Also some emachine cases are built to only take the motherboards they install. (Proprietary). I'm not sure if this is true in all cases but at least in the two I attempted to install micro atx motherboards in.
From: Gary Hendricks on 4 Mar 2006 06:57 Hi Mike If you replace the motherboard, you must do a clean install of Windows. The reason being that the OS installation detects your hardware. So I do recommend that you take out a clean HD and install Windows and your old apps there. Best Regards, Gary Hendricks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Find hundreds of FREE tips on building computers. Subscribe to my newsletter, The Computer Builder: http://www.build-your-own-computers.com/newsletter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: kony on 4 Mar 2006 11:00 On 4 Mar 2006 03:57:33 -0800, "Gary Hendricks" <gary.hendricks.user(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Mike > >If you replace the motherboard, you must do a clean install of Windows. Untrue. In fact, there is zero gain to doing a clean installation of windows over a migration of an existing installation once it works. By that I mean a repair installation might be necessary or any other issues handled on a case-by-case basis. The most pointless thing to do is never bother trying, since any way you look at it, if the current installation can't be moved due to lack of ability by the installer, at most the installer was out a few minutes of their time (not many minutes either, even a repair installation can be mostly unattended). >The reason being that the OS installation detects your hardware. Which might be important if plug-n-play didn't exist.
From: don on 6 Mar 2006 00:28 Windows 2000 is the worst, XP is a little better. With win2k the system would only tolerate a certain amount of hardware change before bluscreening at startup this was designed into the system in an attempt to stop pirating by cloning partitions (ghosting). Ghosting works fine up to a limit. XP usually just needs a system repair from the install CD (or other location) to fix it up, but depending on your setup it may be almost as fast to do a complete re-install. The problem is that you may have some obscure program installed and associated in the system. My experience is that (on my own personal machines) the install process does not end at the installation of windows, it continues on into the installation of the software packages, and then in to the customization of the interface. It may go on for some weeks until everything is exactly the way you like it again. If you can avoid this then by all means do so. "Mike" <mikey117(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:iaLNf.164$n%2.142(a)tornado.texas.rr.com... > I have an e machine with a dead motherboard. > > I have an MSI PM8M-V that I'm planning on replacing it with. > > Is there a painless way I can just pop the new MB in, replace some drivers & > go? > > Both old & new boards have everything onboard. > > Since I have extra HDs laying around, my next choice was to install > everything new on another HD & copy Docs & Settings from old HD. > > I am open to any other suggestions! > >
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