replace motherboard

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I Have A Amptron Board Socket 370 With Slot 1 With Intel 810 Chipset Can I Replace With Any Other Motherboard With Socket 370 With Intel 810 Chipset And Use Same Hardrive That Booted With Amptron Board Or Do I Have Replace Same Amptron Board WITH WINDOWS XP

[Cricket]

What operating system are you using?

If you find another Socket 370 motherboard with the same chipset you might be able to just swap the motherboards, reconnect everything and just start your computer up and go.

But let us know which operating system you're using.

Cricket

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Windows Xp

[glc]

You can replace it with *any* motherboard and worst case will be a repair reinstall of XP. You won't lose anything except Windows updates applied since the initial install.

[Techdec42]

I heard that if you switch mobos that the hard drive wont like it to much is this true

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by Techdec42 I heard that if you switch mobos that the hard drive wont like it to much is this true

It's not the hard drive that won't like it, it's the operating system that might choke on the changes. But there are things you can do to make the switch over work. Depends on the OS in use.

But if the new motherboard is using the same chipset as the old motherboard, the switch over might go without any problems. I swapped out a EPoX i815EP motherboard with a ASUS i815EP motherboard last year and WinXP started up like nothing happened.

Cricket

[Techdec42]

Yeah I ment the OS but I just said hard drive. I need to choose my words better I guess