Mother board changing....

Provided that your hard drive is comparable with the mother board, you should not need to re-install all of your software programs. New mother boards and hard drives use SATA (and an even newer PATA) connector. As long as your new mother board has the same connector (likely IDE or whatever), then this should not be a problem. However, your operating system Windows, may have a problem. It depends. Make absolutely sure you have your Windows 98/XP/Vista/whatever, CDs ready. When Windows boots up on the new Motherboard, it's going to go nuts. It will start detecting tons of things. Sometimes Windows finds everything, and is happy. Sometimes Windows locks up and crashes. You may have to re-install Windows on your hard drive completely. However, all the other software should be fine, AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT FORMAT THE DRIVE. Just re-install windows. The best answer is, before you do this, make sure you save back up copies of everything you want to save. When you pull a computer apart, you never really know what might happen. Better safe, than sorry.

well my friend now a days all the applications use a lot of processing power which could make your system slow. if you have any old processor such as pentium 4 or dual core processors try to change it with core 2 duo or core 2 quad with a better mother board and also put a better video card to make your multimedia tasks run faster.

I never heard of changing the mother board to speed up your computer. Usually you have to change the mother board with one similar so that it will physically fit inside your computer and is compatible with your power supply. If it was me and my computer was slow, I would look elsewhere to speed it up like adding more RAM, freeing more HD space, uninstalling unused programs, removing viruses, etc.

You can still use the same hard disk from your old computer on this new motherboard. The caution is that when you have installed the new mother board and the old hard disk your computer will demand a run of system disk. It's now the time to insert the XP Cd you have for your PC. If you installed XP Pro, insert the XP Pro. If its HOme, insert XP Home CD. Allow your system to boot from the cd and repair your os accordingly. In this way, you will be able to recover all docs and applications previously installed. if you have problems please inform me so that i can send you my email link.

Uhmm well for me i think reformatting is not much of an option, you will only change a mother board. I already did that,i change a friends mother board and uses his old hardisk drive and it works. We do not even reformat it, as xp always detects new hardware as well as other OS too. But if you will have a problem then reformat it. At least try it first before reformatting. It is really a burden on your part if you will reformat a pc cause your files will be gone and it is a little bit hard to reformat pc, it takes time you know, specially for old pc.

before you change your MB, that you should backup your software, and turn it to portable, by copying your software from your C drive...than after you reinstalling your OS, all you do just copy again your software to your C drive...thats its maybe...

Shouldn't be any major problems. All is read in post mainly. as far as the system is concerned. Post and bio's are the main board.

As far as I'm aware you shouldn't experience any problems. Your applications are already installed on your hard drive so it's just a matter of connecting the hard drive to the new motherboard that you buy. It will either be the old IDE(Integrated Device Electronics) connector or it will be the modern SATA(Serial Advanced Technology Attachment). Before you change the motherboard make sure that you carry out important backups of all the data that you need. When you buy the motherboard you should receive a driver cd with it and this contains all the drivers you need as standard that come with your new motherboard. Have you considered the processor as well? If you are going to use the processor on your old motherboard then it will need to be compatible with the new motherboard, it will have to fit the slot or socket on the new motherboard. Otherwise you will have to buy a new processor as well. What about the RAM or memory in your old system? Will you be using that on your new motherboard? If so it will have to be compatible as well otherwise you will have to purchase new memory to go with your new motherboard. Anyway, I wish you luck with your new setup. Andrew

I do not think you have to reinstall your applications. In case of a new motherboard you will just have to install the drivers of the new motherboard and uninstall the softwares of the old one. That is all I think you will have to change. Best of luck with your motherboard.

i guess if you are using windows xp then the operating system might not work properly or crash because operating system look for certain devices to function and if the operating system fails than you need to reinstall the operating system and all the other softwares as well. You might need to run the full repair of windows after replacing the motherboard, i think this might help. but you better ask some professional if your data and applicaitions are really important.