Other Things to do When Replacing the Motherboard

Necer149

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So I just bought the gtx 750 ti and an evga 500w psu only to find that I need to upgrade my motherboard so the bios will work with the new Maxwell architecture on the GPU. I went ahead and bought an Asus M5A78L-M LX Plus since I use this for my own pc build and am very happy with it. I have a few questions before I install the new motherboard, also I am keeping the CPU the same.

Do I have to uninstall/delete anything for the old motherboard before I install the new one (like I have to delete the drivers for the GPU)?

Will I lose any of my files after the new mobo is ready to go? I have a 1 TB external hard drive I can use to transfer all files to it while installing the new stuff if I have too.

Is there any other tips you guys could share with me? I am doing this for a friend who payed me in advance so I definitely don't want to screw up...

Thanks, Mark
 
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There was absolutely NO reason to change your motherboard to support a 750Ti if it had a PCIE x16 slot. Its just a GPU.

If you change the motherboard to a different model you need to reinstall windows. If you have an OEM license of windows 7 the license is tied to the board and you will have to buy a new license.
There was absolutely NO reason to change your motherboard to support a 750Ti if it had a PCIE x16 slot. Its just a GPU.

If you change the motherboard to a different model you need to reinstall windows. If you have an OEM license of windows 7 the license is tied to the board and you will have to buy a new license.
 
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Necer149

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The old board was a Foxconn Aloe 1.01 which is very outdated and HP does not have any BIOS updates to support the GTX 750 Ti. After I installed everything it would not even power on, but when I put the old parts back in (GTX 550 Ti & an HP 300W PSU) it worked fine. Here is a list of the PC specs...

AMD Phenom II X4 945
8GB PC3-10600 RAM
EVGA GTX 550 Ti
Win 7 OS
Foxconn Aloe 1.01 Mobo (H-RS880-uATX)
1 TB HDD

Also, the PC is an HP Elite HPE 210f.

Mark