Rebuilding with the NEW P67's...

[Anomaly1964]

Ok so I give ASUS my credit card number, they ship me a new board, I disassemble and reassemble...

I've never had to do this before and I am not worried about the re-building, but...will the system just boot up like before with the OS already installed or what will I have to do to make Windows 7 work on the new system...?

If there is a link of instructions somewhere, that would be great...

Thanks!

 

[SmCaudata]

A swap for the same board has usually never been an issue. Windows 7 is actually pretty good with a new/different motherboard. You may be prompted to reactivate windows due to a new hardware id, but otherwise it should go smoothly. I'd make sure to plug into the same slots and get motherboard settings the same in bios. I've heard of issues when people go from ide mode to ahci.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I don't know ... everytime I swap a major part like a motherboard, I FEEL like I need to reformat, so that's my plan.

 

[Hogan773]

A swap for the same board has usually never been an issue. Windows 7 is actually pretty good with a new/different motherboard. You may be prompted to reactivate windows due to a new hardware id, but otherwise it should go smoothly. I'd make sure to plug into the same slots and get motherboard settings the same in bios. I've heard of issues when people go from ide mode to ahci.[/QUOTE]

I had this when updating ASRock BIOS, as ASRock defaults to IDE yet I had been on AHCI when I originally loaded Windows. Refused to boot and I bricked my pants. Once I figured it out and set new BIOS to AHCI, all was good again......

 

[Anomaly1964]

I don't know ... everytime I swap a major part like a motherboard, I FEEL like I need to reformat, so that's my plan.

That's just it though, I don't wanna have to reformat my boot drive, is that required?

 

[PingSpike]

I highly doubt you will have to reformat.

 

[Zargon]

you shouldnt


hell, there is a great chance you could swap in differnet p67 board and it would still work without issues

 

[Anomaly1964]

you shouldnt


hell, there is a great chance you could swap in differnet p67 board and it would still work without issues

Unless a z68 board give me something I dont have, I will be getting the Sabertooth P67 again...

 

[rvr2k3]

I think Windows activation has to do with assigned points related to the registered peripherals. As long as other components are the same, it should not be an issue.

 

[Accord99]

That's just it though, I don't wanna have to reformat my boot drive, is that required?

I went from a P35/Q9550 to the current P67/2600K with the same Windows 7 installation.

 

[Anomaly1964]

I went from a P35/Q9550 to the current P67/2600K with the same Windows 7 installation.

Cool...

 

[Zargon]

Unless a z68 board give me something I dont have, I will be getting the Sabertooth P67 again...

:biggrin:

I was just sayoin, I've swapped to different mobo chipsets w/o the need to reinstall