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mobo died, get same again?

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ThePiston

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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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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