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Intel Core i5-4670K & ASUS Z87-A LGA 1150 questions

p5200

p5200

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I plan to upgrade to the listed components all of the rest of the hardware has been determined to be compatible. After the components are switched out I want to verify, my approach of Win 7 Pro installation will work and if not, would someone please correct me and give me advice as to the proper approach? What my idea was after everything is hooked up and ready to install OS, I would turn on enter bios set to boot from cd, and set to AHCI since I'll be reusing my Samsung 840 120GB SSD and leave the rest of the bios set to default at that time. I'll have my Logitech model 520 wireless keyboard with the model 310 wireless mouse which came together. Does this approach seem like it should work especially the wireless keyboard/mouse? I could sure use some corrections for the proper way of installing the OS if not, it would sure be appreciated Thanks! 🙂
 
If you're upgrading the motherboard, you have to reinstall Windows, you can't just use the Windows installation from your previous computer.

I don't see why your wireless mouse and keyboard wouldn't work.
 
lehtv said:
If you're upgrading the motherboard, you have to reinstall Windows, you can't just use the Windows installation from your previous computer.

I don't see why your wireless mouse and keyboard wouldn't work.
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Oh I know, I plan to install a fresh OS was just mainly concerned if my approach of setting up the bios for AHCI and setting to boot from CD was all I would have to do in order to do the fresh new install of win 7 pro. Thanks! 🙂
 
Presumably you're booting from a DVD instead of a CD but yes, that's all you need to do 🙂

You don't even have to set the optical drive as a boot priority, just boot to it once from BIOS. Either way works though.
 
lehtv said:
Presumably you're booting from a DVD instead of a CD but yes, that's all you need to do 🙂

You don't even have to set the optical drive as a boot priority, just boot to it once from BIOS. Either way works though.
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Yes it's a dvd Thanks very much for your help! :thumbsup:
 
The Windows installer is kind of dumb because it doesn't let you directly choose where to put the bootloader and it doesn't necessarily put it on the system disk either.

If you have any other hard drives, leave them unplugged during the Windows installation process. That'll make sure that the installer puts the bootloader on your SSD instead of one of the HDDs.
 
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