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Replacing Motherboard

TheRealRhubarb
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So I've just had the satisfaction of ordering a new cpu motherboard and ram, yay! (a 6700k, Asus Prime z270m and 8gb ram to be precise).  However I'm upgrading from an old amd 760g chipset with an fx-8350, in which i have three hard drives, one an ssd with windows and two larger storage drives.  I want to know what is the most painless way of keeping my data and getting windows up and running? Thanks!

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There should be no problem switching mobo and cpu and ram, just make sure to plug all the hard drives in and format the bios to make the boot drive boot first...other than that there should be no compatiablility problem with switching motheroards unless the motherboard dosent have enough sata slots for those drives.

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Just plug all your drives into your new system and you'll be set. Windows will get drivers and stuff in order by itself. I did a similar thing a while ago (fx6300 to i3-6100). Make sure to download your network drivers before hand because sometimes windows won't be able to get that working and you will have to do it yourself.

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and there are enough sata connectors on the motherboard your using, you should be just fine

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would have been an issue back in the day but windows doesnt care so much anymore, ittl just pull new drivers and get on with it.

 

I've heard stories however of people losing their windows activation due to the new hardware fingerprint for their machine

Home PC:

CPU: i7 4790s ~ Motherboard: Asus B85M-E ~ RAM: 32GB Ballistix Sport DDR3 1666 ~ GPU: Sapphire R9 390 Nitro ~ Case: Corsair Carbide Spec-03 ~ Storage: Kingston Predator 240GB   PCIE M.2 Boot, 2TB HDD, 3x 480GB SATA SSD's in RAID 0 ~ PSU:    Corsair CX600
Display(s): Asus PB287Q , Generic Samsung 1080p 22" ~ Cooling: Arctic T3 Air Cooler, All case fans replaced with Noctua NF-B9 Redux's ~ Keyboard: Logitech G810 Orion ~ Mouse: Cheap Microsoft Wired (i like it) ~ Sound: Radial Pro USB DAC into 250w Powered Speakers ~ Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise x64
 

Work PC:

CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1275 v3 ~ Motherboard: Asrock E3C226D2I ~ RAM: 16GB DDR3 ~ GPU: GTX 460 ~ Case: Silverstone SG05 ~ Storage: 512GB SATA SSD ~ Displays: 3x1080p 24" mix and matched Dell monitors plus a 10" 1080p lilliput monitor above ~ Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise x64

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What OS are you running? W10 will boot and activate. older OSes not so much.

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Ryzen 5 5600, GIGABYTE B550M DS3H, 16Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz, Asrock RX 6800 XT Phantom Gaming,

Seasonic Focus GM 750, Samsung EVO 860 EVO SSD M.2, Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe, Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon

 

Daughter's Rig;

MSI B450 A Pro, Ryzen 5 3600x, 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz, Silicon Power A55 512GB SSD, Gigabyte RX 5700 Gaming OC, Corsair CX430

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2 hours ago, asand1 said:

What OS are you running? W10 will boot and activate. older OSes not so much.

yeah it's windows 10, hopefully that means no issues :)

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Yeah... Windows 10 is getting better at auto driver installs, just plug in and go, But if you have an oem license, you will need to buy a new one.

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9 minutes ago, Generic Apple Hater said:

Yeah... Windows 10 is getting better at auto driver installs, just plug in and go, But if you have an oem license, you will need to buy a new one.

I don't think this is the case anymore though. Your activation is tied to your Microsoft account, not the hardware. But to be honest, I have never had an OEM Windows machine.

Black Knight-

Ryzen 5 5600, GIGABYTE B550M DS3H, 16Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz, Asrock RX 6800 XT Phantom Gaming,

Seasonic Focus GM 750, Samsung EVO 860 EVO SSD M.2, Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe, Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon

 

Daughter's Rig;

MSI B450 A Pro, Ryzen 5 3600x, 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz, Silicon Power A55 512GB SSD, Gigabyte RX 5700 Gaming OC, Corsair CX430

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