Hardware upgrades and win7

I am planning on some major upgrades quite soon, which includes a new
motherboard, cpu and ram. How will my existing installation of win7
64bit fare when the new hardware is installed.
Will I have to re install, repair, revalidate or what.

Thanks

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:51:17 +0000, Bob H wrote:

I am planning on some major upgrades quite soon, which includes a new
motherboard, cpu and ram. How will my existing installation of win7
64bit fare when the new hardware is installed.
Will I have to re install, repair, revalidate or what.



You will almost certainly have to at least repair. But it's likely
that you will have to do a clean reinstallation.

"Bob H" wrote in message
...
I am planning on some major upgrades quite soon, which includes a new
motherboard, cpu and ram. How will my existing installation of win7 64bit
fare when the new hardware is installed.
Will I have to re install, repair, revalidate or what.

You'll need to revalidate.

You might have to reinstall the os but it depends on whether or not the os
is on RAID, how close the new MB chips match the old, etc. If the os is not
in a RAID array you probably won't need to reinstall but you might, so plan
accordingly.

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-smithdoerr

"smithdoerr" wrote in message
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"Bob H" wrote in message
...
I am planning on some major upgrades quite soon, which includes a new
motherboard, cpu and ram. How will my existing installation of win7 64bit
fare when the new hardware is installed.
Will I have to re install, repair, revalidate or what.

You'll need to revalidate.

You might have to reinstall the os but it depends on whether or not the os
is on RAID, how close the new MB chips match the old, etc. If the os is
not in a RAID array you probably won't need to reinstall but you might, so
plan accordingly.

--

-smithdoerr

Acronis TrueImage 2010 along with its add-on Plus Pack (at additional cost)
will allow the user to make a backup image of the hdd and then restore that
image to a new computer with the ability to add the new drivers. I've tried
it with XP from one computer to a different computer that needed different
mb, video, audio, nic drivers and it worked. It seems that it's a possible
choice for you.

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Jan Alter

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:51:17 +0000, Bob H wrote:

I am planning on some major upgrades quite soon, which includes a new
motherboard, cpu and ram. How will my existing installation of win7
64bit fare when the new hardware is installed. Will I have to re
install, repair, revalidate or what.

Play it safe: back up your data and settings, do a clean install, restore
data and settings. Will save you lots of headaches and future problems.

Stef

Bob H wrote:

I am planning on some major upgrades quite soon, which includes a new
motherboard, cpu and ram. How will my existing installation of win7
64bit fare when the new hardware is installed.
Will I have to re install, repair, revalidate or what.


I have a vague memory of discussion about new motherboards in relation to
the revalidation of Windows.

I'm sorry but I can't remember where I saw this. Hopefully someone else may
have the information.

I think that the answer was that if you had a retail copy of the OS then
there shouldn't be too much of a problem with revalidation, but you may have
to contact Microsoft.

However if it is an OEM copy I believe it was said that this was registered
to a particular motherboard and would necessitate buying another license.

--
John

John Aldred wrote:


I have a vague memory of discussion about new motherboards in relation to
the revalidation of Windows.

Found the thread:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-
US/w7itproinstall/thread/944d30f1-78fd-4486-83ec-b314e04dd49a

Apologies for the split URL.

--
John

On 24/11/2010 22:26, John Aldred wrote:
John Aldred wrote:


I have a vague memory of discussion about new motherboards in relation to
the revalidation of Windows.

Found the thread:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-
US/w7itproinstall/thread/944d30f1-78fd-4486-83ec-b314e04dd49a

Apologies for the split URL.


Page not found, but thanks anyway.

"Bob H" wrote in message ...
On 24/11/2010 22:26, John Aldred wrote:
John Aldred wrote:


I have a vague memory of discussion about new motherboards in relation to
the revalidation of Windows.

Found the thread:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-
US/w7itproinstall/thread/944d30f1-78fd-4486-83ec-b314e04dd49a

Apologies for the split URL.


Page not found, but thanks anyway.

Try this:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...c-b314e04dd49a

Bob H wrote:

On 24/11/2010 22:26, John Aldred wrote:
John Aldred wrote:


I have a vague memory of discussion about new motherboards in relation
to the revalidation of Windows.

Found the thread:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-
US/w7itproinstall/thread/944d30f1-78fd-4486-83ec-b314e04dd49a

Apologies for the split URL.


Page not found, but thanks anyway.

I've stitched the split URL together by temporarily disabling word wrap.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...c-b314e04dd49a
See is you can get there by clicking on it now.

--
John

?Hi, John.

One advantage of the much-maligned (often deservedly so) Windows Live Mail
is that it naturally handles long URLs:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...c-b314e04dd49a

No cut'n'paste required. ;)

MS solved this problem in the later versions of OE, and both WM and WLM
continue the proper handling. Last I checked, Outlook still does not.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-9/30/10)
Windows Live Mail Version 2011 (Build 15.4.3502.0922) in Win7 Ultimate x64
SP1 RC


"John Aldred" wrote in message
...

John Aldred wrote:


I have a vague memory of discussion about new motherboards in relation to
the revalidation of Windows.

Found the thread:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-
US/w7itproinstall/thread/944d30f1-78fd-4486-83ec-b314e04dd49a

Apologies for the split URL.

--
John

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:51:50 +0000, John Aldred wrote:

Bob H wrote:

On 24/11/2010 22:26, John Aldred wrote:
John Aldred wrote:


I have a vague memory of discussion about new motherboards in relation
to the revalidation of Windows.

Found the thread:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-
US/w7itproinstall/thread/944d30f1-78fd-4486-83ec-b314e04dd49a

Apologies for the split URL.


Page not found, but thanks anyway.

I've stitched the split URL together by temporarily disabling word wrap.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...c-b314e04dd49a
See is you can get there by clicking on it now.

Look into http://tinyurl.com or one of its competitors. Pretty useful &
interesting, IMO.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 11/24/10 8:13 PM, R. C. White wrote:
?Hi, John.

One advantage of the much-maligned (often deservedly so) Windows Live
Mail is that it naturally handles long URLs:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...c-b314e04dd49a


No cut'n'paste required. ;)

MS solved this problem in the later versions of OE, and both WM and WLM
continue the proper handling. Last I checked, Outlook still does not.

Yeah, but they broke it's ability to properly quote previous text in a
reply...


--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional
Thunderbird 3.1.6
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 9:51:22 PM

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:06:41 +0000, John Aldred
wrote:

Bob H wrote:

I am planning on some major upgrades quite soon, which includes a new
motherboard, cpu and ram. How will my existing installation of win7
64bit fare when the new hardware is installed.
Will I have to re install, repair, revalidate or what.


I have a vague memory of discussion about new motherboards in relation to
the revalidation of Windows.

I'm sorry but I can't remember where I saw this. Hopefully someone else may
have the information.

I think that the answer was that if you had a retail copy of the OS then
there shouldn't be too much of a problem with revalidation, but you may have
to contact Microsoft.

However if it is an OEM copy I believe it was said that this was registered
to a particular motherboard and would necessitate buying another license.

*groan* Please don't dredge up the thread that went on for ages in
this newsgroup where a certain person incorrectly claimed that "the
computer" (for licensing purposes) referred to the motherboard, and
then went on to claim that his motherboard has a CPU and enough
storage onboard to run Windows. It was a mess of a thread.

--

Char Jackson

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:26:47 +0000, John Aldred
wrote:

John Aldred wrote:


I have a vague memory of discussion about new motherboards in relation to
the revalidation of Windows.

Found the thread:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-
US/w7itproinstall/thread/944d30f1-78fd-4486-83ec-b314e04dd49a

Apologies for the split URL.



Simply enclose it in angle brackets, then it works for everyone,
regardless of client. (I don't know of any exceptions to that rule.)

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/944d30f1-78fd-4486-83ec-b314e04dd49a


--

Char Jackson