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Change Motherboard without reinstalling windows..

Richard Rule

If your windows 10 license key is tied to a microsoft account you should have no issues. Otherwise, you may have a problem because windows binds the keys to the motherboard ID. 

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Im referring to hardware driver conflicts that may result in crashes etc

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What hardware are you upgrading?

Intel to intel or AMD to AMD should be minimum problem.

You can do a repair installation if it failed.

Just prepare for fresh install if anything happened, have some backup.

 

The activation shouldn't be a problem once the OS is properly installed, if it cannot work call MS, they'll give you another activation code.

I've done this many times.

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1 minute ago, Richard Rule said:

Im referring to hardware driver conflicts that may result in crashes etc

uninstall all major components prior upgrading (lan, gpu etc).

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7 minutes ago, Richard Rule said:

Will this work on win 10?

It will work just fine.  With Windows 10 you can change your mobo cpu ram and it will boot right up.  Linus does it all the time and also recently my mate did it from a Core 2 Quad to a Ryzen system and it booted right up and not a single BSOD or crash.  So yes you can do it.  There is something you do before you do it which clears your devices and what not.  I forgot what that was or if it even was the reason it went so smoothly.

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9 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

What hardware are you upgrading?

Intel to intel or AMD to AMD should be minimum problem.

You can do a repair installation if it failed.

Just prepare for fresh install if anything happened, have some backup.

 

The activation shouldn't be a problem once the OS is properly installed, if it cannot work call MS, they'll give you another activation code.

I've done this many times.

Its my motherboard.. it suddenly died and i got a new one, a different type, model and brand

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8 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

It will work just fine.  With Windows 10 you can change your mobo cpu ram and it will boot right up.  Linus does it all the time and also recently my mate did it from a Core 2 Quad to a Ryzen system and it booted right up and not a single BSOD or crash.  So yes you can do it.  There is something you do before you do it which clears your devices and what not.  I forgot what that was or if it even was the reason it went so smoothly.

Right.. my motherboard died got a new one, different type, model and brand..

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1 minute ago, Richard Rule said:

Right.. my motherboard died got a new one, different type, model and brand..

That is fine, as I said my mate had a Core 2 Quad and I got him a new Ryzen motherboard and a 2700x and 32GB 3200Mhz Ram and it booted right up into his old old WIndows installation.  As I said Linus does this all the time.  You can only do it with WIndows 10 other OSes will give a instant BSOD and what not.

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9 minutes ago, Richard Rule said:

Right.. my motherboard died got a new one, different type, model and brand..

with the same chipset it should run without installing windows. hopefully.

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2 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

with the same chipset it should run without installing windows. hopefully.

As I said my cousin went from a Core 2 Quad to a Ryzen system and WIndows 10 booted right up and he was up and running.  Doesn't have to be same chipset.  It says detecting devices then boots right up to Winblows.  Fact this works, why are we still talking about it lol.  As I said Linus does this all the time when he tests hardware.

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8 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

That is fine, as I said my mate had a Core 2 Quad and I got him a new Ryzen motherboard and a 2700x and 32GB 3200Mhz Ram and it booted right up into his old old WIndows installation.  As I said Linus does this all the time.  You can only do it with WIndows 10 other OSes will give a instant BSOD and what not.

Works for me just now.. plugged my ssd.. a little "setting up your devices" message (about 10mins) and booom.. everything is just there.

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28 minutes ago, Richard Rule said:

Works for me just now.. plugged my ssd.. a little "setting up your devices" message (about 10mins) and booom.. everything is just there.

You see? Trying is sometimes faster than asking. :)

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7 hours ago, homeap5 said:

You see? Trying is sometimes faster than asking. :)

Not in all situation.. agree?

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7 hours ago, Richard Rule said:

Not in all situation.. agree?

Well, "sometimes" means "not in all situations". :)

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Based on my testing, Windows 10 has been exceptionally robust in changing who systems. That said, I did not test Intel to AMD or the reverse. But it should not matter with modern AMD CPUs.

 

The only restrictions are:

  • Passing from IDE or SATA set to IDE emulation mode to SATA mode, and the reverse.
  • Passing from a UEFI to BIOS system (this is a BIOS limitation. BIOS does not support drives formatted in GPT, only MBR, so it won't be able to boot at all to the drive. BIOS will act as if the drive is empty)
  • Passing from BIOS to UEFI system. UEFI does not support drive formatted as MBR, only GPT. So this is the reverse case above. However, this can be solved by setting your UEFI to emulate the old BIOS mode. In the UEFI setup screen, set UEFI mode to Legacy mode (or disable UEFI, or set it to BIOS... each motherboard has a different option definition of this option, but it is all the same)
  • Passing from a system that doesn't support the CPU instructions to run Windows 10 or run Windows 10 under 64-bit mode, or doesn't have the system requirements to run the OS.
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@GoodBytes: from gpt to mbr - convert drive to mbr, remove all additional partitions except system, boot from installation USB, fix boot. From mbr to gpt even easier - boot from installation USB, activate command prompt (shift+f10), use mbr2gpt (with parameters) and that's all. But I agree that it may be difficult for novice users.

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13 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

@GoodBytes: from gpt to mbr - convert drive to mbr, remove all additional partitions except system, boot from installation USB, fix boot. From mbr to gpt even easier - boot from installation USB, activate command prompt (shift+f10), use mbr2gpt (with parameters) and that's all. But I agree that it may be difficult for novice users.

Yes. Very true. However, this is of course, more of a permanent solution, which we don't know if this is the case.

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Small additional info - from GTP to MBR - after clone only system partition and converting drive to MBR, you must set partition as active and use "bootrec / rebuildbcd" in Windows system repair command line (from installation usb).

 

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