How can I upgrade my CPU's motherboard and processor without making my harddisk have problems?

Question

I was planning to upgrade my PC from WinXP SP2 to vista Ultimate. I also plan to upgrade my processor. My motherboard, though, cannot support the lastest processor. My cousin said if you replaced the motherboard and kept the hard disk, the hard disk will have problems. I just planed to upgrade my system memory, processor and videocard. The motherboard has no guarantee that it will work right with Windows Vista.

Mac is very expensive in my country and I can't find a retailer of Linux in my country.

I'm currently using a jetway K8M8MSR2 motherboard, AMD Sempron 1.6Ghz, 80GB hard drive

Answer 1

Your cousin is wrong. Upgrading mobo, cpu and ram will not cause any hard drive problems at all. You will only need to reinstall windows and since you want to upgrade to vista anyway there's nothing to worry about, just backup your data first.

Answer 2

How about an answer that works....
(If anyone tells you to go to Vista then ask them if they like cake before it is baked...)

I posted this before, as it is a popular problem that has a very
simple solution.

Back up your hard drive first , just in case.
Install your motherboard.
Without booting it with your existirng drive, put in the XP cd, Boot it and do a second level repair (not the first 'R', the one that will come after you tell it to install XP. It will see your old system and ask you if you want to repair it. Say Yes)
.
This will replace all of the HAL code and windows drivers, with the microsoft stored equivalents for the new board. It will then rebuild XP for the new motherboard. All things being ok, you wind up with your system with no copying or loss of installed programs.

After it boots the new XP environment, install the motherboard chipset and drivers disk that came with the motherboard, and run windows update for all the rest.

Works great, and the recommended way. You will be asked to re-register your XP , since the new MB will null your existing licence. Just run the activation via internet (hopefully, MS installed a compatible ethernet driver to allow you to do this, otherwise you have to place a phone call)

Answer 3

your cousin is probably referring to windows inability to accept some types of new hardware....like a new motherboard. If you were to keep the old drive with windows on it and put in a new motherboard, windows xp will not boot. You would have to re-install windows xp. The hard drive would still work, you would just have to back-up everything you needed prior to the upgrade then re-install xp.

Answer 4

i would back up everything you want to save on the hard drive before doin any upgrading. burn the back up onto cd-rom so you save all the files you want too in the computer now ... i personally would go get the new parts for the vista upgrade, and install them , however i would also wait about a year since vista has so many problems with it, and there isnt to many program that work well on it , including games, i would reinstall windowxp back for around a year till everything catches up with vista.. and they get the bugs worked out with it ..

Answer 5

If you change your motherboard but not the OS then you will have a problem. There are a lot of drivers for all the chipsets that go on the motherboard. These are installed when the OS is installed


If you change the motherboard and install a new OS, then you should have no problems. (provided you motherboard supports your drive type.)

Answer 6

particular, maximum easily. on your particular computing gadget, the main RAM that it may help is 2gb, dazzling now it maximum in all probability has 256mb, it fairly is amazingly low by way of today's standards. It helps DDR 333 (pc 2700) and DDR 4 hundred (pc 3200). it in simple terms isn't waiting to apply DDR2 or DDR3. the main effectual project you ought to do may well be to purchase 2 1gb sticks of DDR 4 hundred RAM. that would desire to run you approximately $60-$80 USD. you will additionally prefer to make particular to purchase 2 comparable RAM modules, in case you do get better than one. often they arrive in what's observed as 'twin channel kits', meaning that's 2 of them in a equipment, that are precisely alike. And extra importantly; (Technical) They run on 2 channels, doubtlessly doubling the verbal replace velocity. Oh, and as a side notice, for overall performance, you will want a decrease "CAS" score, the commonly used is 3, yet you will discover 2.5 or 2.

Answer 7

What's that question?You can buy new things for your computer and just don't change your hardware and don't change your Windows.