Win2k hardware upgrade question

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:22 am

Hi have win2k pro with sp4. It's running great with no problems; however, the speed of the mobo is slow with things I'm trying to do on it like video. I have a dually P3-550MHz board with 760 megs of ram. I also use WinRAR a lot to unarchive huge 4 gig files and it takes 15 minutes or more.

So my question is: how is Win2k if you need to replace the mobo? I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo with an Athlon 2500 Barton that I would like to replace the current mobo.

The boot drive is a SCSI 9 gig running off the built in SCSI found on the mobo. I do have an add-on pci SCSI card that I can install in the new Asus mobo. Do you think it would work without reinstalling win2k?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:35 am

Win2K is a total lost cause when it comes to mobo changes. It will NOT work unless you're changing to a mobo with the same chipset.

You're much better off upgrading that installation to WinXP first, then changing the mobo. Then all you have to do is boot from the XP CD on the new system and do a repair install (2nd menu after the EULA agreement NOT the first menu selection of "Repair from Recovery Console").

XP will just wipe the device manager and re-detect all devices. You will need to re-install all service packs and critical updates afterwards.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:23 am

OK thanks FP. I guess after hearing that, I'll just do a fresh install of win2k. I really don't want to use xp if I don't have to.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:36 am

the only shot you might have is if win2k is running off a pci ata-100 card or something like that - i got a way with that a couple of times, otherwise, as fp sez, it won't fly