I have switched motherboards from the same manufacturer, same award bios,
without doing anything and it's come out fine.  Windows detects the changes
and makes the modifications.  One thing I always do is to copy the Win98
install from the CD to the hard drive and then change the source in the
registry so when windows starts making changes, it doesn't have to go
looking for the CD.

I'm not sure you will be able to run a PIII 500 at 133.  That's a real
stretch.  Depending on your motherboard you may get something less like 124.
You will certainly need some extra cooling.

Another problem you may have is going to an AGP card.  Unless you have a 1/2
option for the agp bus which no bx chipset board has,  you are running AGP
way over specification.  My tnt2 ultra won't run at 133 with a 2/3 divider.
It does run most 3D games  at 129 except for Unreal tournament.  Have to go
to 124 to run that.

The memory may run at that speed.  May not.  You are just going to have to
try that one.  I have very good PC100 ram that won't and some "no name" ram
that will.

Ben Moore

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Face" <

Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 4:06 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] guidelines for changing motherboard


> I am about to swap my existing motherboard for a new one. Should I delete
> all the system devices in Device Manager before the exchange?
> I am running Windows 98. The curent MB is a DFI P2XBL Rev B+. The
> replacement MB will be a DFI PA61.
> Additionally, I will change the existing Celeron 300A CPU with a P-III 500
> MHz, after the MB swap. Is it likely that I could have a problem going to
a
> 133 MHz bus. The only cards I have installed are (1) SoundBlaster PCI128
> and (2) STB Velocity 128 video (which will be swapped for an ATI
> Express2000 AGP). Do I need to upgrade my existing 64 MB DIMM 100 MHz
> memory?
>

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