Swapping 2 Processor Motherboard for a New Single Processor Motherboard

[Guest 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

[Guest philo]

Re: Swapping 2 Processor Motherboard for a New Single Processor Motherboard

 

 

"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