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From: Minh Tran-Le on 6 Apr 2010 22:16
Just trying to figure out if it is possible to change:
OLD: P5E3-Deluxe with Intel Q6600
NEW: P7H57 with Intel I7

SAME: disk drive
SAME: OS Win7 64bit
SAME: Graphic card

Will I need to do a fresh install and have to reinstall all my
applications or could just do a repair and maybe re-activate ?

Thanks.
From: Peter Johnson on 7 Apr 2010 10:22
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:16:46 -0700, Minh Tran-Le <tranle(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Just trying to figure out if it is possible to change:
>OLD: P5E3-Deluxe with Intel Q6600
>NEW: P7H57 with Intel I7
>
>SAME: disk drive
>SAME: OS Win7 64bit
>SAME: Graphic card
>
>Will I need to do a fresh install and have to reinstall all my
>applications or could just do a repair and maybe re-activate ?
>
The pundits will tell you not to do it but I have, more than once.
With Win 7 it works like a dream, as soon as it boots to the desktop
it goes on line and gets the drivers that aren't in the install
package, it rebooted once. I think there was one of mine that it
couldn't find, for something trivial that I already had the driver
for. I don't remember reactivating but was using the RC at the time.
From: Bob F on 8 Apr 2010 18:31
Minh Tran-Le wrote:
> Just trying to figure out if it is possible to change:
> OLD: P5E3-Deluxe with Intel Q6600
> NEW: P7H57 with Intel I7
>
> SAME: disk drive
> SAME: OS Win7 64bit
> SAME: Graphic card
>
> Will I need to do a fresh install and have to reinstall all my
> applications or could just do a repair and maybe re-activate ?

What I usually do is remove all the drivers using the hardware manager. Then
power it down, swap motherboards, and boot it up. Windows will detect the
missing drivers, and re-install them with the needed new ones.



From: shaw news on 26 Apr 2010 00:13
and that is better way if you still have the motherboard bootable.
as one does not get into performance penalty nor having to deal with
removing hidden devices


I have swapped mainboard on XP pro once w/o starting from scratch but it did
take some work although less than a total clean install

However if your system has been in used for quite a while was getting
sluggish or there memory addition. one may as well take this opportunity to
do a clean install

"Bob F" <bobnospam(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:hpllf1$ltp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> Minh Tran-Le wrote:
>> Just trying to figure out if it is possible to change:
>> OLD: P5E3-Deluxe with Intel Q6600
>> NEW: P7H57 with Intel I7
>>
>> SAME: disk drive
>> SAME: OS Win7 64bit
>> SAME: Graphic card
>>
>> Will I need to do a fresh install and have to reinstall all my
>> applications or could just do a repair and maybe re-activate ?
>
> What I usually do is remove all the drivers using the hardware manager.
> Then power it down, swap motherboards, and boot it up. Windows will detect
> the missing drivers, and re-install them with the needed new ones.
>
>
>


From: (PeteCresswell) on 26 Apr 2010 10:24
Per shaw news:
>one may as well take this opportunity to
>do a clean install

And, while at it, partition the drive into C: (system) and D:
(data), make and image of C:, and start saving stuff only to D:

That way, if/when things go South again, you can restore the C:
partition from the image in less than an hour instead of spending
6+ hours rebuilding.
--
PeteCresswell
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