mb upgrade question

Motherboard upgrade
I am upgrading my mb from a via pro ( intel p3) to a kt133a ( athlon xp) chipset. The VIA driver package is the same for both boards.

I was thinking that I would just let it boot into win2000 and let it plug andplay itself into bliss instead of doing the whole new hard drive format and then reload all the software. A while back I did this with an intel board swap and it went fine.

Anyone ever do this, I know its not recommended but will it work?
thanks

 

Your major concern would be the differences in the BIOS settings, and even those should be no big deal. Other than that, there's no significant impediment to it.

I don't recall seeing any recommendation to reformat and reinstall because of a new mobo. But, I've never gone deeply into it. No doubt our members who do these things for business or fun can be far more informative.