Replacing a motherboard: what the heck to do?

[harmattan]

So, my last PSU blew and took my eVGA 680i with it (yes, i know... ouch). I've got a new mobo on the way that's the exact same model, as well as a new PSU.

Unfortunatly, I've never been through the process of replacing an entire motherboard on a system without starting from scratch. I still have my CPU, DVD-RW, video cards etc. My problem is I'm not exactly sure how to go about reinstalling the hard drives without having to reformat. One hard drive would be hard enough, but I have two HDs in RAID 0.

Can I just install the mobo and enable RAID in the bios for it to work, or will I need to reformat and reinstall Windows? In other words, will the RAID array remain intact after I replace the mobo? I've been trying to research this over the past few days, but have been unable to find an answer. Any help is much appreciated.

 

[rammedstein]

if ti is the exact same mobo model (shouldn't matter about the reversion much) but all you will need to do is physically change them and set your settings to what you had before, i'm not sure about your mobo in particular but you shouldn't need to reinstall windows, just put the drives in and re initialize the array.

 

[harmattan]

if ti is the exact same mobo model (shouldn't matter about the reversion much) but all you will need to do is physically change them and set your settings to what you had before, i'm not sure about your mobo in particular but you shouldn't need to reinstall windows, just put the drives in and re initialize the array.

Thanks for your reply. I really hope that's the case.

Anyone else want to confirm I won't need to reinstall after replacing the mobo?

Also, will I need to run Windows recovery/repair after intstalling the mobo?