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[Lil' Dice]

I'm going from an Athlon XP2000+/MSI KT3 Ultra2 board, to aan Athlon 64 3000+ and MSI KT8 Neo motherboard.
The thing is, i've never attempted to replace anything in my PC other that adding a slave drive, memory or DVD drive.
Then again, i don't want to have to pay someone to do it for me.
What am i looking at difficulty wise, outside of zapping my mobo what other risks am i running by doing it myself?
And if you've ever done such an upgrade to your PC, did you have to reformat after installing the new board/CPU?

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Easy as pie.

You fuck that up and you're dumb or have rheumatism or something.


Just make sure you're grounded (static is a no-no), and that you pay close attention to your hot and cold '+ or -' leads when doing the pins.

Chances are it won't work at first. You'll later realize that you did something wrong that could've easily been done right if you just took the time to read the instructions

 

[Atrex]

Well as long as you make sure all the spacers are in place you should have no problem...Just make sure everything is plugged in when you are done, anyone can do it really its not hard.

 

[Lil' Dice]

Easy as pie.

You fuck that up and you're dumb or have rheumatism or something.

That's what i like to hear.
I'm just not looking forward to having to reformat, i'd like to get away without having to do so....

 

[Atrex]

If you regret reformatting so much its probably been too long since you have anyways...It definately would be a good idea and it really isnt that much work.

 

[Vandiger]

The most optimal thing to do is backup or move your data files to a partition or harddrive and format. If you're too lazy to do that then just overwrite your previous OS installation. You'll need to reinstall applications but you'll still have your data and games intact.

 

[Hitokage]

Bad News: You are most likely going to have to reformat and reinstall windows. I'm not sure when it happened, but ACPI/PCI handlng got changed and dropping a windows install configured for the old system will NOT play nice with the newer one. Found this out myself when I replaced my old KT266a based motherboard.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Woah buddy.... C'mooooooon Buddy.

Always reformat, or at the very least run a clean OS install and leave the drive intact. Pick an alternate 'Windows' folder.