mobo died, get same again?

[ThePiston]

my brother lost his mobo (gigabyte GA-8IK1100) should he get the exact same mobo so he can boot into his HDD again or should her get a new gigabyte mobo with improved specs? Wille he be able to boot into his HDD is he gets a newer board with a different chipset/ drivers etc?

 

[Blazer]

he may still have to do a repair install,buy a mobo that meets his requirements,boot from the disk and do a repair install.

 

[BaronMatrix]

If he gets the same board, he won't have to rerun setup. Even with a new board it only matters if the HD ctrlr and number of CPUs change.

 

[HDTVMan]

Windows XP?

I have swapped motherboards from NFORCE2 to a SIS chipset and the OS will reboot a few times but eventually find everything.

On a laptop I have swapped a hard drive to a totally different Dell and like before it will reboot a few times finding new hardware but eventually comes up fine.

In the end a rebuild might be in order to clean out the bloat changing a mobo can add but overall its that ability that makes it a much more friendly OS than linux.

Now if you didnt get the hint. If your running Linux get the exact same mobo.