Swapping 2 Processor Motherboard for a New Single Processor Motherboard

[Don]

I am beginning to have some issues with the current motherboard in my
system. It is a two processor ASUS P2BDS (yes, and oldie - but it has
treated me well). I would really like to swap motherboards and avoid
building up my system from scratch, but all the boards I ma looking at are
single (uni) processor. If I recall correctly, when Win2000 installs, it
loads a different kernel for SMP systems as compared to single processor
systems. Will the SMP kernel just revert to a "single processor"
configuration? Or will I need to somehow install the uniprocessor kernel?

Undoubtedly there will be a couple of rough edges in terms of doing a
motherboard swap, but is it even possible going from a 2 processor system to
a uniprocessor? Reloading all my software from scratch is just not really
appealing.

Any comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Don

 

[philo]

"Don" <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
news:O0y2zqIzHHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> I am beginning to have some issues with the current motherboard in my
> system. It is a two processor ASUS P2BDS (yes, and oldie - but it has
> treated me well). I would really like to swap motherboards and avoid
> building up my system from scratch, but all the boards I ma looking at are
> single (uni) processor. If I recall correctly, when Win2000 installs, it
> loads a different kernel for SMP systems as compared to single processor
> systems. Will the SMP kernel just revert to a "single processor"
> configuration? Or will I need to somehow install the uniprocessor kernel?
>
> Undoubtedly there will be a couple of rough edges in terms of doing a
> motherboard swap, but is it even possible going from a 2 processor system
to
> a uniprocessor? Reloading all my software from scratch is just not really
> appealing.
>
> Any comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Don
>
>

First...back up all your data...

When you get your new mobo better plan on doing a repair installation...
irrespective of the cpu...a win2k generally requires a repair install with
new hardware...
though sysprep might do the job