- Sep 11, 2013
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So I'm going to swap out my motherboard and I've read about a lot of problems that could occur with being able to boot to your drive.
Intel DZ77-GA-70K
I currently have Windows 7 in UEFI, AHCI and I've read that it might create issues with booting. I'm fairly familiar with dealing with boot problems in the BIOS, however I'm swapping from MSI to Intel (link above) so I won't be super familiar with the setup. I'm assuming that once I have everything plugged in, I can just turn it on, go immediately into BIOS and check to make sure it is booting to my drive and set the BIOS to UEFI/AHCI and it'll load up into Windows, and from there I can install the new drivers from the Internet since I use a pcie network adapter.
I know that Windows is linked to the motherboard, but I downloaded a Windows 7 UEFI ISO onto my flash drive and formatted it blablabla, but I never actually activated Windows and I've been using it for about 2 years since "my copy" is an OEM from an entirely different computer. Every once in awhile it'll tell me to activate Windows, but I just ignore it and I'm still good to install updates, etc. Since it was never even activated in the first place, is this still going to create problems?
Also, should I delete all the old MSI drivers before I take my computer apart or can I not do that within Windows? I'll download the latest BIOS and Chipset onto a flash drive as well just to be sure (Do I need the RAID driver even if I'm not doing RAID?) I've read something about updating the drivers within the BIOS if you can't boot to Windows but I don't know exactly what that means.
Any comments/clarification would be immensely helpful!
Intel DZ77-GA-70K
I currently have Windows 7 in UEFI, AHCI and I've read that it might create issues with booting. I'm fairly familiar with dealing with boot problems in the BIOS, however I'm swapping from MSI to Intel (link above) so I won't be super familiar with the setup. I'm assuming that once I have everything plugged in, I can just turn it on, go immediately into BIOS and check to make sure it is booting to my drive and set the BIOS to UEFI/AHCI and it'll load up into Windows, and from there I can install the new drivers from the Internet since I use a pcie network adapter.
I know that Windows is linked to the motherboard, but I downloaded a Windows 7 UEFI ISO onto my flash drive and formatted it blablabla, but I never actually activated Windows and I've been using it for about 2 years since "my copy" is an OEM from an entirely different computer. Every once in awhile it'll tell me to activate Windows, but I just ignore it and I'm still good to install updates, etc. Since it was never even activated in the first place, is this still going to create problems?
Also, should I delete all the old MSI drivers before I take my computer apart or can I not do that within Windows? I'll download the latest BIOS and Chipset onto a flash drive as well just to be sure (Do I need the RAID driver even if I'm not doing RAID?) I've read something about updating the drivers within the BIOS if you can't boot to Windows but I don't know exactly what that means.
Any comments/clarification would be immensely helpful!
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