Nforce 430 vs. 405 1

[goombawaho]

Anyone know if you have a hard drive with an existing XP installation done on a Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 (NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / NVIDIA nForce 405 chipsets) would work if plugged into a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2 (NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / NVIDIA nForce 430 chipsets).

In other words, without blue screening.

 

[kmcferrin]

If you aren't using RAID, then maybe.

When I've had to do that in the past I first take a image of the hard disk in case I screw it up. Then after installing it into the new PC I boot into Safe Mode, delete all of the devices that are in Device Manager, then reboot into normal mode. It will then go through and detect all of the new hardware, probably rebooting several times in the process.

That's not the supported way of doing things, but it seems to work OK.

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[goombawaho]

Ghosting - good call. AKA CYA. When in doubt, Ghost.

Would you really delete ALL the devices or just some of them like onboard video/sound/network???

 

[BadBigBen]

This has always worked for me:

faq602-6735

alternatively you could place the mainboard into the new system and boot with the XP CD then do a REPAIR INSTALL, as per MS instructions...

How to replace the motherboard on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000

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

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[goombawaho]

Yeah - but you know that I'm never successful with repair installs, so I'm looking at that first link and I have questions.

It's basically INJECTING some registry entries for basic drivers into the registry of the existing XP installation AND manually copying the drivers into the windows folder so they exist.

1. Is it just adding more entries or is it replacing existing entries? In case the machine would boot without modification, I'd hate to replace what's there and good because the mobos are very close.

2. Do those registry entries cover the SATA hard drive that I have in that machine - both old and new mobos are SATA (not raid)??

3. Would you just try to boot once without these changes first?? In other words, can't you just switch hard to new machine and try it first and then do the regedit later if it doesn't boot? Or will there be some damage to the windows installation as a result of trying to boot???

 

[goombawaho]

By the way - the first mobo is DEAD, so I can't boot it to make those changes. I could do that via Bart PE - the copying of the driver files and the editing of the registry.

 

[Freestone]

Acronis True Image with Universal Restore should make this a fairly easy job. It needs an image to work with, so with the first MB being dead, it may be moot.

 

[goombawaho]

I want to hear from Mr. Ben, preferably BEFORE 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning (Eastern U.S. time). My time of reckoning.

 

[BadBigBen]

1. it replaces those reg entries, with the STANDARD XP install reg entries...

you would basically do this before switching mainboards...

2. those entries only replace the standard IDE entries...

so in your case, since they are SATA, this may not apply, since there was no mention of SATA in the original post...

3. actually, it would not matter if you booted first without the changes, if it blue screens it changes nothing on the drive or the registry...

I am afraid, if it does not boot up and rectifies itself, or through driver updates later, then the only option you have is to REPAIR install the OS...

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[goombawaho]

Are any special registry entries NEEDED for SATA if you don't have to do an F6 during the installation for this particular motherboard??

Wondering if I should even bother with the registry entriess given the hard drive is SATA. The optical drive is IDE.

 

[kmcferrin]

Would you really delete ALL the devices or just some of them like onboard video/sound/network???

I have always deleted all devices, because some of the previously installed devices may no longer be needed and there's no point having the drivers around. Of course I usually have to re-activate as well, but with a motherboard swap that's probably par for the course.

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[BadBigBen]

Goombawaho, if you do not have to use the F6 option to inject drivers, then the SATA mode is in IDE (or Legacy) mode, then the above would work...

if the SATA mode is set to AHCI then the above would not work...



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[goombawaho]

For all my worries, there were no worries. Booted right up, no devices to install. BAM!!!!!!

 

[BadBigBen]

Glad you got it up and running, though I would still run the Chipset drivers on it, just in case...

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