Hey all,
I have a four year old motherboard that finally died. The SATA ports have been acting strange for a year of so now, and finally died. The problem related to recognizing my SSD boot drive and HDD storage drive. Long story, but I've found work arounds in the past by re-plugging them in, but the MOBO no longer recognizes that either are there. Through the help of people on this board, when it first started acting up, we diagnosed the most likely culprit as the MOBO. It posts, and I can access the BIOS, but it won't recognize either drive so that I can boot to Windows.
So, I don't want to completely start from scratch and rebuild the entire system, but would like to just replace the MOBO at this point. I would like to salvage my i5 2500k, GTX 680, PSU, SSD, HDD and DDR3 RAM and get a few more years out of it.
I'm thinking about getting this board (in stock at local Microcenter):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293
Unless I am missing something, It's compatible with my CPU, RAM and case, and the price is right. Am I wrong about compatability?
This PC is my first gaming system that was built entirely by my brother in law. Since the original build I personally have upgraded the CPU, GPU and added both new hard drives, but have never built from the ground up. I'm confident enough to take the plunge, but wanted to ask the community about pitfalls about switching motherboards?
Is my current windows install going to work? I purchased a retail version of Windows 7 when I upgraded the SSD. Or am I going to have to get a new copy?
What other issues may I run into? Any advice/Tips? Is it a bad idea to just replace the MOBO? Most guides that i have read start fresh from the ground up, and while building a completely new system would be awesome, the finances don't dictate that at this point.
Thanks in advance
I have a four year old motherboard that finally died. The SATA ports have been acting strange for a year of so now, and finally died. The problem related to recognizing my SSD boot drive and HDD storage drive. Long story, but I've found work arounds in the past by re-plugging them in, but the MOBO no longer recognizes that either are there. Through the help of people on this board, when it first started acting up, we diagnosed the most likely culprit as the MOBO. It posts, and I can access the BIOS, but it won't recognize either drive so that I can boot to Windows.
So, I don't want to completely start from scratch and rebuild the entire system, but would like to just replace the MOBO at this point. I would like to salvage my i5 2500k, GTX 680, PSU, SSD, HDD and DDR3 RAM and get a few more years out of it.
I'm thinking about getting this board (in stock at local Microcenter):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293
Unless I am missing something, It's compatible with my CPU, RAM and case, and the price is right. Am I wrong about compatability?
This PC is my first gaming system that was built entirely by my brother in law. Since the original build I personally have upgraded the CPU, GPU and added both new hard drives, but have never built from the ground up. I'm confident enough to take the plunge, but wanted to ask the community about pitfalls about switching motherboards?
Is my current windows install going to work? I purchased a retail version of Windows 7 when I upgraded the SSD. Or am I going to have to get a new copy?
What other issues may I run into? Any advice/Tips? Is it a bad idea to just replace the MOBO? Most guides that i have read start fresh from the ground up, and while building a completely new system would be awesome, the finances don't dictate that at this point.
Thanks in advance
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