VIA to SiS change with W2K

[Titanion]

I have read that XP is not so forgiving with a chipset change on a motherboard swap, but how is W2K SP4? I am taking out an old Soyo SS7 motherboard with a VIA chipset and pitting in a motherboard with a SiS chipset...

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[Guest]

The best answer is try it and tell us hehe.

But on a more serious note, win2k and xp have the same guts, if its working/not working with XP its probly working/not working with 2K SP4.

Try it and go in hardware manager and right click on the top of the tree and select scan for hardware change and hope it works. Different chipset is probably asking too much tough. Ive done diffenrent motherboard based on the same chipset though

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[Scout]

It gets pretty messy trying a swap like this with XP. I've tried that several times with only marginal success. Even when I go in and blow away the various unique hardware in device manager, XP will often refuse to start on the new board.

I've had somewhat better luck with Win2k. I have Win2k loaded on an 80 gig drive that I have swapped multiple times onto different motherboards. Most of the time it lights up and sorts out the new hardware.

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