Upgrading MB and CPU... and a couple other questions =)

[Brindisi]

Ok... I am upgrading my PIII 933 to an AMD AthlonXP 2000+. My questions are these.

1. I am upgrading my motherboard to an Epox 8K7A+ Rev. 1.1 and I am not sure if it's compatible with the 2000+. I see on the Epox website that Rev. 1.0 is not and that 1.2 is. I see no information on a Rev. 1.1 which is what my board says. Is the board compatible?

2. I am just switching all my peripherals over to the new system. I have a hard drive with WinXP and a bunch of programs. Can I just install the MoBo and Bios that came with it and have everything run smoothly or is there some information that needs to be cleaned off the drive?

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Brind

 

[Mulga]

Can't help you with the mobo question (1) but in regard to swapping the hard drive between mobos, it is far better to do a format and clean install of Windows on the new motherboard. If for some reason you cannot do this then at the end of the last session with the old board go into device manager and remove ALL hardware, including everything listed under system devices. This will take a while but should be done. Then fit your new Motherboard but do not fit any expansion cards such as sound card, nic, modem etc, except of course for a video card. Boot up and Windows should detect everything and install the essentials, then install the drivers for the motherboard then replace your expansion cards one at a time and install those. This procedure usually works but there are no guarantees. I repeat it is far better to do a format and reinstall Windows, especially as you are going to a completely different mobo chipset All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[gavrc]

Win XP is (probably) smart enough to take a straight total swop, you could help it by removing the obvoius devices in DM before you shut down for the last time. The drivers will naturally be the same but the IRQs, etc will more than likely change when everything is slotted into the new mobo.
As to question 1 a bios update may be needed to allow the mobo to recognise the chip at full speed and seeing how the multipliers are all set by sofware now I'd be surprised if it didn't work anyway. I'd sugest finding someone who has the same board and asking them to check the max multipliers available in their bios.

Gav
A problem with your PC??? Never...

 

[paparazi]

You will almost definately need to have the bios flashed, but probably not to actually recognise the processor clock speed, rather more likely the new XP designation (ie:XP2000+)
Just not worth the hassle trieing to make the Hard drive hot swop, put all your vitals on a rewritable or a backup hard drive (you can pick up a small 2-4gig for just a few dollars) then write it back to a clean installed hard disk. Martin Just trying to help, sometimes falling short, I am only human after all.