Motherboard and GPU swap: Anything I Need to Know?

[Operandi]

A clients AM2+ Phenom 920 machine has been acting up over the past month or so and I believe we have narrowed it down to one or two bad DIMMs which is a problem because this machine is maxed out with 8GB (its a video and sound editing rig).

The board in question is a Gigabyte 780G which I couldn't find an exactly (or close even really) replacement for so I picked up a 770 board (no on board GPU) and a Sapphire AMD 5450 PCI-e card.

I was planning on uninstalling all the AMD drivers, rebooting, shutting down and preforming the swap. Is there anything else I should do?

Oh, and the OS is Windows 7 x64 if that makes any difference.

 

[mpilchfamily]

You may run into problems and be forced into a full reinstall of Windows after the swap. THe driver cleanout may not be good enough. So make sure to get a backup of any important data on the main drive before you start.

 

[mfenn]

Yeah, always make a backup. Since both boards likely use the same southbridge, you should be fine though.

 

[Operandi]

Hmm..... I was really hoping that since the chipsets are so similar I would be able to avoid that.

 

[mpilchfamily]

Some times even idential chipsets can cause a problem. At the very least you'll have to deal with MS again to register the copy of Windows.

 

[Operandi]

It seems to have worked fine.

Windows booted up fine on the first boot, I reinstalled the chipset, video, audio, and NIC drivers with no issue. So now I'm running MEMtest86+ and awaiting the results.