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Motherboard Swap windows 7

ahenkel

ahenkel

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I swapped motherboards and figured what the hell I'll try booting up the old drive before I'm forced to clean install. Surprisingly the new board booted up right away (little slow first time) found all the new drivers, cleaned out the old ones and its like nothing ever happened
 
You win at life 🙂 Seriously, that doesn't happen every day, enjoy!

<--- has seen soooo many BSODs on swapping hardware with Windows, back from the old days to current. It's why I usually do sysprep or mergeide.
 
ha thanks. I know I'm hoping this isn't just a fluke and it a new windows 7 thing. I was expected epic fail BSOD's end of the world type stuff.
 
I used to just change the driver for the hard disk controller to the generic PCI one from microsoft before swapping the motherboard. I think the only time it doesn't work is when you're using a weird controller...hell, I've even swapped from an onboard to PCI card based one.

This doesn't do you a shitload of good when the motherboard spontaneously dies on you though. I bet if I added another hardware profile...

Anyway, I read the other day that windows 7 is suppose to be much more friendly about this. Which is nice, since this used to work on 9x systems with no advanced planning but never worked on 2K and up.
 
yep I usually do the change a few key drivers to generic thing too. I didn't have to do that this time. I did have to reactivate but no big deal. I hope this is the norm especially in the case of motherboards dying.
 
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