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Changing MB and CPU W7
On 1/7/2012 3:38 PM, Alias wrote:
On 01/07/2012 09:36 PM, Alex Clayton wrote: On 1/7/2012 8:45 AM, Alias wrote: On 01/07/2012 05:08 PM, Alex Clayton wrote: On 1/7/2012 7:47 AM, Ant wrote: On 1/7/2012 2:39 AM PT, Rob typed: If I change the MB and CPU from a 1156 CPU to a 1155 CPU which does involve the MB as well - The current setup is running W7 x64 Ultimate What procedure does one go about this change so as to leave the HDD information intact (like doing a repair install with XP). or do you have to reformat the HDD and start from scratch? Thanks Just do the change and nothing will happen other then maybe a notice to reactivate. Do that and everything will be fine. Al. Thanks Al just done what you mentioned and it all comes back as previous just added the new MB drivers and all looks fine. Saved heaps of time in reinstalling software and activations etc. Activation was not required for W7 Lot easier than XP repair setup. Thanks again ......................... To the other reply All I changed was the MB and CPU. The old MB developed a problem which I traced back to the MB, this occurred after the Power Supply spat the dummy. Since the 1156 MB's are now obsolete, when for a new 1155 MB and CPU lucky it was just the MB and none of the other hardware bits. I have a i5 760 (1156 pin) CPU for sale now Wow, no reactivation. Was this a retail W7? Did you have to delete/clean out old hardwares in Windows' Device Manager? I was wondering that same thing. If the W7 copy was a factory install you may have a surprise coming in a month or so. I doubt Windows 7 Ultimate is a factory install. Even if it's a generic OEM version, it has been proven time and time again that a computer is not defined by upgrading the MB or CPU. Don't know how many times it's been proven, just know that when Acer put a new MB in one of my machines what happened. Every 30 days it would stop working. Told me the license was a 30 day trial and the 30 days was up. if I reinstalled the OS it would start the 30 day clock all over. After a few times of doing that and getting a snow job from Acer I finally just bought a "get genuine" license from MS. Acer put a new motherboard in one of our laptops and that was six months ago and we have had no problems nor been asked to activate again. I would have raised hell with Acer had it been me. Maybe they learned something from their experience with me then. They lost my business for life over the screwing they gave me. Not that they are going to care. We drug this through the weeds for weeks back when this was going on. Some were trying to be helpful, others where offering me insane solutions. Like hire a lawyer and sue MS over the $100.00. I sent the machine back to Acer twice. Both times I had to pay the shipping to them, they paid the return. Each time they would on the phone have me re-install the OS first. This of course worked for 30 days. Then they would give me the RMA to send it back and they obviously did the same thing. Then sent it back. So in 30 days I would be on the phone again and they would start in with the, "lets re-install Windows". After doing this a few times I figured out this was not a solution. It was easy to see they were going to just snow me until the warranty ran out. Calling MS got me no where. They blamed it on Acer and told me I had to have them fix it. Some here told me if I raised hell with MS they would give me a new Key to fix it. I did not feel like spending my life on hold to talk to more of their robots. Took the easy way out and just paid for the new Key and disc. I made it clear to Acer that I would never buy anything they made again and they said "sorry". So maybe they have learned something from the experience. -- Things get better with age. I’m approaching magnificent!! |
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