What are some motherboards similar in size to the D865PERL Intel Motherboard but more updated?

There was a person who wrote an interesting tutorial about swapping mobos w/o having to reinstall Windows.
You can try giving this a shot, but keep in mind, when there is software to hardware conflicts, by design Windows will BSOD to prevent any potential damage to hardware. You can find the post here

or read the proposed solution below.

Quenlin wrote:

"REPLACING A NEW MOTHERBOARD AND KEEING THE SAME HARD DRIVE

Prep Steps.....
You will need your Windows Install disk. Full or upgrade will work
You will need log into your Motherboard's Manufactor website.. i.e (ASUS) and download the latest Rapid Storage Technology drivers incase you are using a newer SSD, etc. That is the MOST important drivers for this operation (you may have to unpackage them.. i.e. zip, exe.. etc.. (Some manufacturers do not have the latest RST drivers on their new CD Distro's yet.) Place the RST drivers onto a thumb drive and have it ready for the below steps.


1. Insert your windows install disk into your computer and then shut it completey down and unplug the power cord form the Power Supply.
2. Open the case and unplug all the power and data cables and unscrew all cards from your motherboard.
3. Remove all the screws from your motherboard and gently remove it from your tower.
4. Remove CPU from the old motherboard and put it on the new or in my case when I did this I put my new i7 3770 chip on my new (1155) z77 motherboard with a sweet cooling fan.
5. Carefully insert your new mother board. (if ATX case please make sure you have an ATX Motherboard)
6. Reconnect all the power coards, data cables, video cards, etc to your new motherboard.
7. Close the cover and start your computer hitting <F12> to give you boot options and the ability to boot using your Windows Install Disk.
8. Once the boot program is loaded you will have the option to repair/restore your computer. Just click on the repair and follow the steps.
9. If your computer repairs great.. but if it doesnt, and most will fail.. then you to select to start up the advanced options and you want to use the command line.
10. Once you bring up the command line, eject the windows boot disk from your CD ROM and insert your Motherboard distro CD into the slot.
11. Now on the command line interface and figured out what letter your cdrom drive is.. Probably D:\ and your thumbdrive is probably E:\..or F:\ (you can change to the drive letters by typing E: <ENTER> or D: <ENTER> and then typing DIR to see what is on the drive, etc. (Hopefully if you are doing this, you already know what you are doing.)
12. You will now type DISM /Image:C:\ /Add-Driver /driver D:\ /recurse (This will grab and install all of your distro chipset drivers from your MB CD.
13. Then after you get a cup of coffee and that completes, then do the same thing for the Rapid Storage Technology Drivers on your thumb drive so you make sure you have the latest ones especially if your using an SSD drive. DISM /Image:C:\ /Add-Driver /driver E:\ /recurse
14. Once that is done, replace the windows boot disk back into your computer and reboot.
15. Once your boot into the BIOS and vefify all your settings are correct, then allow it to boot into Windows and Life is good again!!

Final Step........ You have 3 days to RE-ACTIVATE your Windows OS Copy.. which should be painless.. If you do not activate in the 3 day period, then you may have to call Microsoft and explain that you swapped out your Motherboard and you need them to allow activiation again for your license to work."

I take no credit for this. If this fails, consider reinstalling Win7 on new partition and try using Windows Easy Transfer to move your files from the first partition.