Vista - Change motherboard

Is there any procedure or trick to have the possibility to change motherboard
with different chipset, without reinstalling Vista?
Thank you very much indeed!

Hi,

If you're thinking of something like the Win9x trick of deleting the enum
branch under HKLM in the registry, no, that won't work. Installations are
much more complex now, often necessitating reinstallation for subtantial
hardware changes. If the replacement are of similar spec's, then there is a
possibility you can do without the reinstall, otherwise not.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Altero" <Altero@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Depends on the the mobo, chipset, and whether Vista is x86 or x64. How
about some specifics.

"Altero" <Altero@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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My MOBO died 2 weeks ago while in sleep mode and I installed a new one
yesterday.
The system had a Intel Motherboard, an Intel HT CPU, and 1 GB of memory.
It was running Vista Home Premium with SP1 RC1 installed.
My new MOBO is a Gigabyte Model with a different Intel chipset, an Intel
Core2 Duo CPU, and 2 GB of memory.

The disk drive and the graphics card were retained from the old system.
When I turned on the system with only power, monitor cable and PS2 mouse and
keyboard connected the system came right out of sleep mode and displayed my
desktop. Needless to say I was very surprised. My mouse and keyboard cable
are PS2 extension cables and I had them reversed so was unable to proceed
further so I shutdown the system, reversed the PS2 cables then connected my
Ethernet router cable and my cable TV coax cable
I rebooted in safe mode and everything worked except I had to reconfigure my
MC TV settings.
I got an alert that hardware changes had been made and I would have to
reactivate the system within 3 days.
Later in the day I proceeded to activate the system, expecting to have to go
through phone activation
To my amazement the system activated over the internet without any problem.


"Altero" <Altero@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Chipset is different. From Intel 875P to Intel P35
MB from P4C800-E Deluxe to P5K-E WiFi
Vista is x86

To tell you the truth, I've had some very good luck with Vista and replacing
motherboards. I shouldn't have done it that way, but I did... Kinda went
against my own advice and just replaced the board, CPU, RAM, video card (had
to reactivate, but it ran fine). Went from an Abit AMD board with Athlon 64
4400+ and an AGP ATI video card to a Gigabyte P35 Intel board with a Core 2
Duo 6800 and DDR2 RAM and a PCI-e ATI video card. Rebooted and it came up to
the desktop, loaded drivers, had to reactivate and I was good to go. I
wasn't expecting it, but I was eager to get back up and going. Soon after, I
did reinstall as it was a good idea to do...

You might have to do a startup install. I'm not sure if doing an upgrade on
that would work, but it might.

--
Dustin Harper
dharper@xxxxxx
http://www.VistaRIP.com | Vista Resource & Information Page


"Altero" <Altero@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"JW" wrote:
JW, that's very interesting indeed, thanks for telling us your experience!

You may have to do no more than the reinstallation of drivers but likely
will have to do an install. If Vista came preinstalled on your computer you
may need new media (if the current installation is a BIOS-locked version).
If you purchased a full edition of Vista (not an upgrade) you may be able to
do an in-place upgrade. In any case it is imperative that you back up your
files and settings with the Windows Easy Transfer wizard. An image back up
would only get you back where you are now.

"Altero" <Altero@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Dustin Harper" wrote:
Thank you too Dustin, your experience is important as well.
So, it seems there's no a rule for this operation (hardware changes) but
there is some possibility that it can be successful. So I can do nothing
but try!

"Altero" wrote:
Would only like to thank everybody for all these suggestions
After changing the MB I will report the results.
Thanks again!