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Hi all,
I have a system (below) that seems faulty, so may be breaking it up and building a PC for my son, utilising an Asus Micro ATX motherboard from an old low power HTPC with on board graphics and its own Windows 7 license.
With the faulty PC I have tried alternative components at every point bar the PSU and motherboard, with parts from other working machines, I doubt it will be the Seasonic PSU, but will probably swap that out too.
At the moment due to various swapping of bits, I think the motherboard may be faulty, so am thinking of using the Windows 7 install from this PC on a new PC. Ivy bridge i5 or i7 on an Asus Maximus Gene is my thinking.
How simple is it to transfer the operating system?
Is there any process I need to do on the old PC before swapping? Emails or such?
This was my 1st Windows 7 Ultimate, it was the free party version if any of you remember that promotion.
Gigabyte EP4-DSP3
Intel Q9550
Corsair PC8500 8gb
Sapphire HD4870 1gb Toxic
Samsung F3 1tb drive
Seasonic 650w psu
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I have a system (below) that seems faulty, so may be breaking it up and building a PC for my son, utilising an Asus Micro ATX motherboard from an old low power HTPC with on board graphics and its own Windows 7 license.
With the faulty PC I have tried alternative components at every point bar the PSU and motherboard, with parts from other working machines, I doubt it will be the Seasonic PSU, but will probably swap that out too.
At the moment due to various swapping of bits, I think the motherboard may be faulty, so am thinking of using the Windows 7 install from this PC on a new PC. Ivy bridge i5 or i7 on an Asus Maximus Gene is my thinking.
How simple is it to transfer the operating system?
Is there any process I need to do on the old PC before swapping? Emails or such?
This was my 1st Windows 7 Ultimate, it was the free party version if any of you remember that promotion.
Gigabyte EP4-DSP3
Intel Q9550
Corsair PC8500 8gb
Sapphire HD4870 1gb Toxic
Samsung F3 1tb drive
Seasonic 650w psu
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
