Interesting...my experience changing out a mobo

[daveleau]

I built a system for my fiancee based around a refurbished Abit BF6. ...She is still planning to marry me as long as I never do that again. Needless to say, the mobo died and it is now pretty difficult to find the BF6. So I decided to upgrade a bit and went to an MSI dual cpu mobo. I was very pleased with the specs and ordered the MSI-6321 (694Pro). It came, I installed it and I ran out of time so I tried booting up without reformatting <Gasp!>. The system booted fine and was 100% stable! It is using Win98SE and it went from a BX chipset to a VIA chipset... It found all of the new devices and has been plugging along nicely since then.

I still would recommend reformat and reinstall as a normal choice, but since this has run stably for so long and since I plan to upgrade her C 566 to 2 PIII 750's (to do so I have to install WIN2K witht he SMP kernel), I am going to leave it like it is for now. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Dave

[Bob The Great]

It's always nice when something like that works out! I hate changing mobo's. It's the one piece, that to replace you have to take everything out. So instead of risking just one piece of hardware, wich you can offord to replace. Your risking it all! ahhh!