question about win 2000 and upgraded

[i1zombie]

I'm curretnly using windows 2000 on a PIII 866MHZ system . I am considering upgrading my Motherboard to a AMD XP system. I will be keeping all my old componets. It is my understanding that if I change the motherboard, Proccessor and memory and keep my windows 2000 harddrive it should work just fine. Is this true ?
I will be using all the same components sound card, cideo card etc..
Is there anything I should know before I upgrade besides back up my drive?
Thank you for any advise you can offer
Dan

[BipolarBill]

Since your chipset will be significantly different, it may give you trouble. Here's a thread for you to read:

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=106863

[InfexusBytez]

Agreed.

Win2k is a real pain the the **** to get working right to begin with. Best bet would be to back up the data, and do a clean install with the new equipment.

Besides, without the proper port configurations, Win2k may not run your cards/devices properly. The OS usually doesn't do well getting those right through Device Config Wiz.

[BipolarBill]

He doesn't really need to back up. He can just reinstall to the same place. That will preserve his data.

You should read that thread too, InfexusBytez.

[i1zombie]

Thank you for your feed back.
I have a book here Using Windows 2000 Professional" that says in theory I can remove the harddrive from any computer running windows 2000 and put it into any other computer that meets the requirments and it should automaticaly configure it's self and work.
I knew this was to good to be true.

[BipolarBill]

I usually is good with that - just not every time. Try it. If it fails, use the Repair technique. That will fix most failures.

It's still much better at this than Win98x.