Today I will change the way my mother I upgrade a bit (not much!)
I will draw a neo P35 and then I will put a p45neo.
My question is if I remove the xp or if you must format and start from scratch?
It would be a pity since train recently and I have an operating system very clean and tidy.
The mothers are the same brand, the chipsets are below (P35 to P45 and ICH9 by ICH10), will be necessary?
Maybe the ants should be shut down and disarm uninstall drivers P35 and mother when the other mother pledge install the drivers from the P45, but do not know.
It is not necessary to change formatting plate..... Just.... the bios configured according to your hardware and then install the chipset driver for the new board.
Should not do anything else ... and will have no problems with xp.
Rare that the 2 previous match Posters something WRONG
You will have to re install XP is designed not to lift when you switch plate (chip) as well as Windows 2000, provide a blue and re start, did not even let you starting in safe mode, look in google there are several tutorials that show you skip such as Windows Protection
There is also the option of "repair" with the same disk from which you installed XP.
I had the P35 neo-f in question and then when I went to the Asus P45 I had no compatibility problem at the chip, the package is reinstalled ICDS (Intel Chipset Device Software) and so far I have not had conflicts. Therefore I write from experience XD.