my friend wants me to upgrade her computer for her. her computer is kinda old ('97) so im most likely gonna have to upgrade motherboard as well as the cpu (thinking along the lines of a soyo dragon+ and a 1500+ xp). is it possible to upgrade the motherboard without reinstalling windows and not run into problems so we dont have to reinstall all the programs? like is it possible to go into safe mode before switching the mobos and removing all the mobo stuff from system/device manager, delete some *.inf files, and do a reg clean without running into any probs that you would usually have if you just switched the mobos w/o reinstalling windows?