New Motherboard

I Just did this on the 14th. I bought a barebones system: case, MOBO 64, 120 gig hdd, pci express video card and I used my old 30 gig hard drive from my old computer (it had all my stuff on it). After I put all together the system would not load from my drive. I told the system to boot from my cd drive and inserted the XP disk. After the xp disk loaded I pressed the 'R' for repair. XP did its thing my repairing items that didn't match with the new and old setup it rebooted my system and it loaded from my old drive in the new system. The XP process took about 45 mins all told.

MJ

Your mtrbd. doesn't care what you put on it, BUT of course it has to be properly supported by the ports, etc. NOW, the HD on the other hand if it has any previous data or otherwise it hasn't been formatted expects to see what was there before, if not then expect some problem or extra measures to be taken. Thus, you best bet is to format and start AFRESH. That means, after a format, reload the OS, mtrbd. drivers, then any other drivers if required after inpsecting the control panel/device mgr.. Then you can reload any programs, its pretty much in that order. You can also, reload any previous data to the now new folders where you old data can reside. Makes sense? Believe me if you do it this way, you don't fight the install along the way, just start afresh for aleast less hassles, but that's your choice. I ASSUME, you're handy at such.

tada -----Willy

You can start your old hdd on the new mobo; but it will require the new mobo drivers.

Before moving the hdd from the existing system, copy the new mobo drivers in a directory.

Open the operating system in the new mobo in SAFE mode, install the mobo drivers from the directory.

Your pc should run with the new mobo. The only drawback is that the old mobo drivers will be in the C drive occupying some space, but this can be safely ignored

for the info, im not using windows xp, but win me on that computer so shouldn't be a problem about re-licensing it.
ROger