Originally Posted By: hybrid8
The biggest unfortunate part however is having to reinstall Windows. which is probably going to take the rest of the night if not half the day or longer tomorrow.


No you don't need to spend so much time on this, follow the directions on this site and everything should just work. I used this method of installing starting with a P3 motherboard and upgrading the motherboard 4 times.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI

It only failed because I decided I was going to try and get my network adapters to be numbered 1 and 2 instead of 13 and 14.
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Chad