Motherboard Replacement - Win 7?

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Otacons

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Hello guys.
I bought a Gigabyte 970 UD3P, it will replace my Asrock 970 pro3 r2.0

These motherboards have the same chipset both for Northbridge and Southbridge.

North Bridge: AMD 970
South Bridge: AMD SB950

I have windows 7 64 bit pro installed with a retail license, no oem. Since I would like to avoid re-installing the whole system, do you think I can just delete all the old drivers, turn the pc off, change the motherboard, turn on the system and install the new drivers?

Any advice and procedure is most welcome, thank you very much :)
 
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yoji
It can work.. I have certainly taken out a windows HDD from one machine.. put it in a different machine. with a different mobo and it boot up.

The fact they have same chipset means you improve your chances it will work.. but there are no guarantees.
you just need it to work enough that Windows will load.. then it will do a lot of its own updates for new drivers it needs.
But if it cant boot.. you are stuffed.. and you wont know until you try,

So.. assume it wont work.. do you backups etc on assumption you will need do a reinstall...
then try it.. if it works... great. If not.. you have you data to do a reinstall.

HTH
Cheers
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The problem is there are many more drivers than just the chip set.
I know there is a way to do it, but it is not worth the hassle.
A clean install is always best.

You would have to Google it as I can't remember anything about it.
But basically you have to change all the drivers.

Slip stream install comes to mind, but I'm old an senile.


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It can be done on identical computers, no problem.
I just don't know, if the same chip set is enough.
 
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yoji

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It can work.. I have certainly taken out a windows HDD from one machine.. put it in a different machine. with a different mobo and it boot up.

The fact they have same chipset means you improve your chances it will work.. but there are no guarantees.
you just need it to work enough that Windows will load.. then it will do a lot of its own updates for new drivers it needs.
But if it cant boot.. you are stuffed.. and you wont know until you try,

So.. assume it wont work.. do you backups etc on assumption you will need do a reinstall...
then try it.. if it works... great. If not.. you have you data to do a reinstall.

HTH
Cheers
 
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Seriously? same button you used to turn in on will turn it off!!
If it gives you any trouble,.. keep pressing button for a few seconds..
that will force it off.
And if it really really gives you trouble.. cut power...
If it not booting you hopefully wont corrupt anything.. but if it really really really wont power down.. what other option you have?

Cheers

 
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