I want to upgrade but Vista is holding me back
Hey guys. I've been wanting to do a full system upgrade for the past 2 months actually, but I had to do lots of homework and catching up on todays technologies since I've been away for about 3 years.
Anyway, I'm about ready to SLI two of those geforce 8800gtx's and get that new nForce 650i mobo, etc, but whats holding me back is installing windows XP on it.
The other day, I decided to upgrade to XP's service pack 2; but the installation froze at 75% and completely locked up my machine. Ever since I rebooted, I've had major issues with many of my programs working. My machine pauses for a good minute during Post tests for some odd reason, and I get prompted to boot from CD. Sometimes I cannot even boot normally, I get told to restart and insert a system boot disk (xp).
Meh, its been a good 4 years since I formatted my HD and started all over again, heck I forgot all the commands to do it but I figured why bother just deal with it, since I will get a new box anyway.
With my recent troubles of attempting to upgrade to SP2, this got me thinking, will I run into any troubles when I upgrade from a barebones windowsXP I will use to install on my new gaming rig, to Vista?
Windows upgrading info: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...gradeinfo.mspx
I would probably choose "clean install"
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Clean install
Upgrading to Windows Vista with a clean install means that you should use Windows Easy Transfer to automatically copy all your files and settings to an extra hard drive or other storage device, and then install Windows Vista. After the installation is complete, Windows Easy Transfer will reload your files and settings on your upgraded PC. You will then need to reinstall your applications.
But these are the questions that are bothering me. Will I need to reinstall all the drivers of my mobo, sli geforce graphics cards, etc? (I dont think so right?)
Will I have to reinstall the programs of the cd's that included the drivers from my hardware? ie-Nvidea's program that lets you access your BIOS from windows and their windows tweak settings straight out of your windows control panel, the Geforce options that monitor your SLI setup and info that runs on your taskbar, etc?