Quote Originally Posted by Pntgrd View Post
I have done this many times without a hickup. Just do like you say and delete all the chipset drivers, shut down, change boards and install new drivers. I know many will say this is bad but it has always worked for me. My IP35 system was and Asus A8N SLI with an Opty 165 when I put it to sleep and it woke up as the system in my sig. One other thing I always do when doing this is run a System Repair from the XP disk, the 2nd one in the menu. The XP install I run is over 3 years old and still runs fine, but I do maintain in regularly.
When you do a repair from the XP disk you are wiping out settings and such that you had previously had. Not a big deal as the data and applications are still there and can be recovered if you do the file and settings transfer wizard before you do the repair. But another option you could look into is using a program on the XP cd called Sysprep. If you google that name and something like motherboard replacement you'll get lots of guides pointing out how to use it to change chipset or hard drive controllers or entire mobos. It's really the hard drive controller drivers that will give you those 7E blue screens after moving to a new motherboard.