All the various mobos I have bought come with a CD and instructions on
how to install the drivers for your OS install. I have not had any
issues with winders thinking it was being stolen, seemed happy enough
with the new hardware. Make sure your vid card and hard drives and
CD/DVD drives etc will plug into the new board -- a lot of them are now
SATA and don't have enough connectors for old drives.
Newegg had some daily deal the other day for a package like that.
--R
On 1/9/12 7:29 PM, Dan Penoff wrote:
You can certainly try it without worrying about doing any damage. If it does
boot into the OS, you might have to get some of the hardware drivers for things
like the NIC and load them before you can run updates on it.
Dan
On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
As you may recall if you read this thread last week, it seems that my
father-in-law's computer either has a bad motherboard or bad CPU,
probably overheated if the latter.
Spent a little time browsing the Newegg site and found a Micro ATX
motherboard, 4GB memory, and dual-core AMD Athlon II CPU for about $140.
Nothing spectacular at all, spec-wise, but would be a decent upgrade
from what he has.
Wondering what the chances are that the Windows Vista install on his
hard drive will boot up and reconfigure itself for that hardware? The
original board was a different brand, though it did have a single-core
Athlon CPU. I don't have Windows install media.
Thoughts/advice?
Allan
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