Changing motherboard on 2000 system

[Rediranch]

I have to change a defective motherboard in a system, but I'm running Windows 2000.

There's something in the back of my mind telling me that I will have to reinstall the OS because it will not like having different drivers.

Is this true? Anything I can do to keep my OS intact?

[BipolarBill]

It's best to reinstall if the two motherboards have different brands of chipset. If they are the same brand, it may work because they use the same drivers.

[Rediranch]

Yep, that's what I figured.

I'm using the same brand board, but I'm not sure of the older chipset, although I can find out.

Hopefully it will let me get by with it.

[r8500]

If you swap the motherboard, and it doesn't boot, then you know the chipset was different :)

However, you could then boot to the cd, and perform a repair installation, instead of a clean install of the OS.

A lot of people are going to disagree, and say that a clean install is the only way to go, but I have had good luck with just a repair.

[Rediranch]

Thanks.

Hopefully it won't squawk too much.

[Midknyte]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824125