Replacing NF7-S 1.1 with NF7-S 2.0. Quick replacement right?

[bigdroo]

As some of you might have seen in the Leadtek forum, I have a new NF7-S 2.0 coming in. It's compensation for having to pull a mainboard out of one of my personal systems to keep someone up and running at work. It was an unexpectedly cool move from my employer, I think....

Anyway, I'm planning to replace my v1.1 board in my main rig with this 2.0. Assuming I insert the PCI cards in the exact same slots, I shouldn't have to rebuild/reinstall Windows XP, right? If I don't, it should only take an hour or so for the whole operation. If I do, it's the whole evening...

I also ordered a Zalman passive heatsink and some Arctic Alumina Thermal Adhesive for the MCP/northbridge... With the 2.0 boards, do I need to pull the southbridge HSF again, clean it, and apply some AS3/5 to it, or has everyone done pretty well with them? I had to do it with my 1.1 board.

Any ideas? Any thoughts?

[The_Ghost]

make sure you do a back up to be safe

go to your device manager and remove drivers except for ide drivers

when you reboot into the new system it should find the drivers and reinstall the needed ones that may be a little different

[Chris Tom]

If you get a BSOD then boot from the XP cd, go to install, and then when they give you an option to a repair.

[bigdroo]

Thanks. It just came in. I hope I get to mess with it tonight.