RJM Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 (edited) Last weekend I managed to crack my motherboard an ASUS P5W-DH-Delux. Today I have received a replacement board of the same model.The question that I have is that I have never replaced a motherboard where I have had Windows XP installed. I’m wondering if there is anything that I should look out for after turning on my machine with the new motherboard, going into BIOS to set theclock time, fan speed, memory timings, etc.I’ve googled for this and most of the results are for when you upgrade the motherboardAnd not replacing it with the exact model.Any pointers would be helpful. Thanks Edited September 6, 2007 by RJM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 you wont have to reinstall windows since it is the same model. all ur speeds will be defualted to stock so there wont be any stability problems there. all should go well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 (edited) Make sure you put any expansion cards back in the same slot they were in on the old motherboard. As long as all of your BIOS settings are the same you shouldn't have to worry about anything. Windows will redetect all of your devices...but since the motherboard is the same model you shouldn't need to do a reinstall.Also...when it redetects your devices it's going to ask to reboot to finish the process. DO NOT restart until you're sure that it's finished detecting all of the devices. Otherwise you're going to end up with multiple reboots.And be ready to reactivate Windows XP... Edited September 6, 2007 by nmX.Memnoch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJM Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 Well, that went surprisingly well. I installed the replacement motherboard, put all the cards in the same slots, set everything in bios including my overclock, turned on the PC, no detecting hardware occurred, no reboots, everything works and I did not have to reactivate WinXP!I must have missed something; it’s not supposed to be that easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 [...]I must have missed something; it's not supposed to be that easy!Actually it is. Since it's an identical board windows doesn't need re-activation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I thought it uses the BIOS checksum to identify the system, but I think it has the same BIOS version so yes, that would make sense that you don’t need to re-activate your XP license... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJM Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 It's not the same bios version it was 1601 and is now 1901 and if it was the bios chechsum you would have to reactivate every time that you updated your bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I think I was still sleeping here... You are right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Well, that went surprisingly well. I installed the replacement motherboard, put all the cards in the same slots, set everything in bios including my overclock, turned on the PC, no detecting hardware occurred, no reboots, everything works and I did not have to reactivate WinXP!I must have missed something; it’s not supposed to be that easy!i told you that all would go well as long as it is the same model you shouldnt have any problems, and you didnt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Since it's an identical board windows doesn't need re-activation The board model number may be identical...but the serial number isn't the same, so technically it's not an identical board to Windows. Even the simple addition of a hard drive CAN force a re-activation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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