changing out moterboards

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jaybird
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changing out moterboards

Post by jaybird »

I have a BP6 running one PIII 1100.

I want to change it out with a VP6, no other changes, all hardware and software to remain the same.

My question is this:

Must I wipe my drives and start form scratch or not?

I have 2 drives, a 20gig 7200rpm ATA100 and a 60gig 7200rpm ATA100 both running on the HPT370 controller each on their own channel.

Regards,

jaybird
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Post by InactiveX »

It may work, but you will probably run into some trouble.

I always prefer to back up, reformat and reinstall.
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Post by vgoraz »

i believe you will need to reinstall windows so that it actually knows you have two processors and uses them (has to do with having it use the acpi multiprocessor system thingy) . if your running linux then well you will have to enable smp in the kernel and recompile it and then set it up so it boots with the new kernel
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Post by hyperspace »

I agree. The VP6 uses the Apollo chipset.
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Post by RRLedford »

What O/S was running on the BP6?
I know that you can just reinstall WinXP-Pro right over the BP6 build & it will pick up all the the old S/W setups as it adds the support for new H/W.

You do NOT have to do a clean build - just reinstall to same folder of old boot drive. This saves a lot of time.
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