Shuffle motherboard

[papa]

Hi everybody out there.....
I have a HP pavilion desktop with pentium 4 processor.I just want to change the mother board with a core 2 duo without losing the windows setup.The hard disk has also got a recovery partition.
Will it be possible...if yes can you guide me through please.

[Sam]

can be done i guess. all you need should be to uninstall the drivers & install the new drivers for the graphics & chipsets. but frankly, getting Core2Duo now (2 generation older than Sandy Bridge) can only be said as a bad decision. get Core i3/i5/i7 or settle for AMD Athlon II/Phenom II processor with a good motherboard.