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How can I change motherboard without reinstalling OS?

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fraps

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The harddrive got win7 installed on it, the old mobo was gd45id (intel) and the "new" mobo is ga-g31m, when I start the pc it gets to the "windows loading screen" and bump up a blue screen... is ther a way to delete the hardware device installation without reinstaling windows?
 
fraps said:
The harddrive got win7 installed on it, the old mobo was gd45id (intel) and the "new" mobo is ga-g31m, when I start the pc it gets to the "windows loading screen" and bump up a blue screen... is ther a way to delete the hardware device installation without reinstaling windows?
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Insert win 7 CD, and choose to install. Once it located a previous installation, it prompts rather or not you want to repair it. Repair it.

After repair, the OS should boot up, remove any old divers, then reboot, to safe mod and clean up the registry via CCleaner or alike programs.
 
the sticky is talking about winXP and it doesn't help me...
I tried to repair but it doesn't work...
Has to be other way that I can remove the drivers...?
 
You should have removed the drivers before installing new board.

I believe you have two options:

1. Install windows without formatting. that should preserve the old file system. You may have to reinstall programs to get them to work properly.

2. Hookup hdd to old board outside of case and see if it will boot to windows after you tried to repair and remove drivers.
 
My old mobo fried... could not do anything about that... well thanks guys.. guess ill reinstall the OS...
 
the reason it blue screens is that your SATA drives are not the right drivers.

I think there is a way to do it where you have to change the driver fo ryoru drive controllers to like "standard PCI" , and set your bios to IDE not ahci, before you swap boards. but i don't remember exactly.
 
Usually it has something to do with the chipset driver. Win7 installs it automatically, and there would be no problem if you swapped your motherboard with same chipset mobo. Try to boot into safe mode and see if you can uninstall the chipset driver, if not, you would have to put the instalation cd and repair it as some1 else mentioned it earlier.
 
Maybe a repair install will help. With an OEM license, this may be considered a new PC and you may be violating the license agreement (Whatever that is worth).
 
piasabird said:
Maybe a repair install will help. With an OEM license, this may be considered a new PC and you may be violating the license agreement (Whatever that is worth).
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It will be fine even if it is an OEM. Simply call them and explain that the old Mobo died.

Also, you may need to repair it multiple times depending on how you make your copy. You may have to do it 3 or times to fully restore all the settings.
 
I'd try a repair installation.

If you're being a stickler about licensing and what not... I don't think they considered motherboard replacement when they put together all of the licensing wording. Of course they wouldn't want the same os installed onto 2 different mobos because that would be a red flag of installing it on 2 different PC's.
 
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