On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:04:49 GMT, Grinder
<grinder@no.spam.maam.com> wrote:

>DaveW wrote:
>> As the technical pros recommend and I have found out over the years thru
>> experience that doing a fresh install of the OS after changing the
>> motherboard is actually a time saver in the long run. The results otherwise
>> end in a lot of time spent troubleshooting Registry errors and data
>> corruption.
>
>I'll add to that: Without the clean install you will always be second
>guessing and sort of weird error--some of which might actually be a
>result of the repaired installation.


Not really applicable, I've done tons of migrated
installations without any of these "weird errors".

DaveW is out of his mind though, has falsely repeated
nonsense about registry errors and data corruption without
ever a single piece of supporting evidence.

It's real simple. Can you change a video card on XP? Can
you change a motherboard driver? That's what you're doing.
The first time you install windows it PNPs the hardware.
When you plug in an USB drive, it PNPs the hardware.
Install a new hard drive? PNPs it. Same thing with another
motherboard, you merely have to help it boot far enough to
do so. There is no reason to expect more errors, possibly
even less if the installation was otherwise stable already
as you're presumably starting out with a more mature,
patched version of windows instead of reverting back to the
older, buggier files the reinstall will put back.

It seems a lot of people are just guessing about doing it,
because it's really only a question of whether you can do it
or get stuck and are thus forced to do the repair or clean
install anyway... and determining that doesn't take very
long at all, it is definitely not "a lot of time" as DaveW
write, it takes far more time to do a repair install of the
OS than that saved from not doing so, even when factoring
for an occasional instance where the repair install was
needed anyway.

The thing about windows is wierd errors aren't applicable to
old, no longer existant hardware after the drivers are
uninstalled. It's not voodoo, the procedure is only a
mystery to those who don't do it until completion. Those
who do recognize that IF you can, it is not a problem
afterwards to be second-guessed. I don't claim anyone in
particular can though, first thing it requires is an attempt
to do so, instead of an assumption it can't be done... kinda
like anything else in life.