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by wormsbefamily

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I'm wanting to change out my motherboard which is not the problem. The last time I did this Window XP Pro had to be reinstalled because of the changes made to the computer. Is there an easy way around have to reinstall every thing again?

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by mjd420nova

I've changed motherboards before and all you really have to do is boot to the WIN disk and do a REPAIR, that will reinstall the OS with all the drivers for the new hardware and not affect any of the already installed software. Don't forget the insulating washers under the MOBO if there are any. Biggest overlooked fault I've found on new MOBO installs.

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