Preperation for NEW MainBoard & RAM & Everything Upgradeing

[Scrambler0001 Vista Highway Blues]

I will be upgrading my system board from an Athlon 64 3200 to a DualCore
Athlon x2 5000 system motherboard and new memory and new peripherals.

Is there a standard way to upgrade my system with out having to go through
reinstalling Vista Home Premium 64bit Vaersion. In other words After I
upgrade the MainBoard nad components can I just do a reinstall of my copy of
Vista 64Bit Home Premium so it picks up the changes? I know I'll probably
have to go through the Validation process again after installing the NEW main
board.

The purpose of this upgrade is to improve perfomance under Vista 64Bit.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Scrambler0001 Vista Highway Blues wrote:
> I will be upgrading my system board from an Athlon 64 3200 to a DualCore
> Athlon x2 5000 system motherboard and new memory and new peripherals.
>
> Is there a standard way to upgrade my system with out having to go through
> reinstalling Vista Home Premium 64bit Vaersion. In other words After I
> upgrade the MainBoard nad components can I just do a reinstall of my copy of
> Vista 64Bit Home Premium so it picks up the changes? I know I'll probably
> have to go through the Validation process again after installing the NEW main
> board.
>
> The purpose of this upgrade is to improve perfomance under Vista 64Bit.


You shouldn't need to perform a completely new Vista installation,
but you will need to perform, at a minimum, a "Startup Repair" to enable
Vista to properly boot and run on the new hardware.

Windows Vista Help: Startup Repair: frequently asked questions
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx


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