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RE: New Motherboard
In general, you should not expect to replace the motherboard and have your existing Windows installation just happily adjust to that, unless you are replacing a failed motherboard with the same exact hardware.  That hasn't worked worth a damn on any NT-based Windows version ever (which is all Windows for the last 9 years or so).

Whenever possible, I would suggest to back up your data by whatever means available and do a clean installation.  If not, you will usually at least have to re-run setup from your Windows DVD and pretend you are doing an "upgrade".  Be aware that this solution, which used to work fairly well for prior Windows versions, is reported to have a worse success rate with Windows 7 -- it doesn't hurt to try, but you may end up going through it and still have an unbootable system.

This is one of the things Windows does incredibly poorly and Linux does incredibly well.  Windows stores its driver configuration and shits itself when it encounters hardware required for the boot process that doesn't work with the expected driver set.  Linux detects anything for which the drivers are built into the kernel or supplied as available modules, on the fly on every boot, so as long as you plan ahead, you can pull off a 100% hardware change without any consequence.  With Windows, that only works when you get lucky through backwards compatibility (e.g. your new motherboard uses a chipset that directly descends from the one being replaced).

This post was edited on 03-05-2010 at 06:44 AM by Adeptus.
03-05-2010 06:22 AM
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New Motherboard - by Hybrid on 03-05-2010 at 04:08 AM
RE: New Motherboard - by tony on 03-05-2010 at 05:12 AM
RE: RE: New Motherboard - by ryxdp on 03-05-2010 at 05:21 AM
RE: New Motherboard - by tony on 03-05-2010 at 05:22 AM
RE: New Motherboard - by MeEtc on 03-05-2010 at 06:08 AM
RE: New Motherboard - by Hybrid on 03-05-2010 at 06:14 AM
RE: New Motherboard - by Adeptus on 03-05-2010 at 06:22 AM
RE: New Motherboard - by Hybrid on 03-05-2010 at 07:24 AM


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