If I swap ASUS PBP67 for revised board, will I need to reinstall W& ?

timciren · 18 Mar 2011 at 15:40

Hi,
Just finished building a Sandybridge PC for my son and dont really want to go through the hassle of customising all the settings again.
If I swap the mobo to avoid future problems ( unlikely anyway, I reckon ) will I have to go through a fresh install again ?
If I do I will risk leaving it, if not I will RMA it
thanks !

oops cant edit title from W& to W7

Azuse05 · 18 Mar 2011 at 15:43

Any mobo swap should be followed by a reinstall

timciren · 18 Mar 2011 at 15:46

Thanks Azuse, if that the case I will risk keeping it, I only use 2 SATA ports ATM anyway

Stelly · 18 Mar 2011 at 15:49

I dont think that you should need a reinstall... I have heard that their might be a different on board NIC but thats not going to stop the system booting.

Stelly

Hagar · 18 Mar 2011 at 15:56

Should not need reinstall, reactivate yes.

VoG · 18 Mar 2011 at 17:36

Azuse05 said:
Any mobo swap should be followed by a reinstall

not really tbh, if all he's doing is a B2 to B3 revision swap of exactly the same make & model board, then ide be amazed if he hit any issues, i know when i swap from B2 to B3 i won't bother with a reinstall, the most i'll do is pull the mobo drivers off in safe mode before hand.

Bito · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:06

No you will not need to re-install. Having carried this out on two machines, all that happens is that when you boot up the first time, assuming same device options in the bios, Win 7 will pick up and install the device drivers again and ask to restart. Then, you will be prompted to activate.

Code13 · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:54

If it was a totally new board (make and model) then usually yes, but in this case if it is simply a slightly revised board you should be fine.

Liquid · 18 Mar 2011 at 23:29

You should have no problems and no reload will be necessary, generally speaking the only times it works is when the chipsets are the same, and even then theres no guarantees.

I have had one install shared between an MSI P67A-GD65 and an Asus P8P67 Pro that worked fine, after all drivers were updated.

Activation is required as stated above.

timciren · 19 Mar 2011 at 11:55

ok then folks, it seems worth swapping over then,
thanks for the replies, if it doesnt work I will know who to blame !!!!

Nocky24 · 19 Mar 2011 at 12:20

Just done the same swap myself this week and it went fine. Only thing I had to do was reactivate windows over the phone using the automated system.

Awahwah · 19 Mar 2011 at 18:50

Swapped my b2 to a b3 with no problems

Max3 · 19 Mar 2011 at 19:05

My swap from my q9550 + abit ip35-e combo to i2500k with asus p8p67 pro managed to boot up as normal with windows 7.

turanafon · 19 Mar 2011 at 19:29

I have just swapped my mobo Asus P8P67 pro today , and it booted up no probs, no need for reinstall of win7

Boogiemaster · 19 Mar 2011 at 23:52

I just bought the ASUS p8p67 pro b3 and I'm getting lock ups and freezes.

I've only had the thing a few days to

turanafon · 19 Mar 2011 at 23:53

have you tried a reset ?

Boogiemaster · 20 Mar 2011 at 00:13

turanafon said:
have you tried a reset ?

Brand new motherboard with 1305 bios.

Installed windows fine then started to crash.

Think a reset would work?