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Spoke too soon... windows failed to activate, tosser, grr!
Had to call the number and do a shit load of beeps... sorted now.
if u have an OEM (system builder) copy of windows, that going to happen everytime you change the motherboard. It hashes the serial number/make/model/stepping etc into the activation string.
The OEM versions are tied to the specific motherboard initially installed on.
Made the switch on one machine last night. The process I took:
Shut down the machine
Swapped out Mobo (came with 1305 bios)
Cleared CMOS before powering on
Went into the BIOS on first boot
Disabled the Marvel and JMB controllers
Saved & Exit -- Booted into Windows 7
On first boot, it loaded up all the drivers automatically. After two restarts, I came to the forums, to the BIOS thread Gary created and installed ALL of the latest drivers he listed:
Intel NIC
Intel Chipset
Intel MEI
Then I pulled the latest nVidia drivers from their site.
After all of that (maybe a half hour?) the system is running like a champ. It's performing MUCH better so far then the Rev 1.0 P8P67 Pro that we had. On the first motherboard, the computer would randomly lock up for 15-60 seconds at a time for no reason. I was attributing it to the SSD. However, the SSD was working flawlessly yesterday during my "play" period. Therefore either I had an affected motherboard or something was up with my previous BIOS/driver config. As of now though, everything is just peachy (knock on wood!).
My copy of Win 7 is retail too and I still had to activate. I assume it;s because I activated it less then 2 months ago when I originally built my new SB system.
Good to know not many problems so far, I will be doing the switch saturday. 1 question though. before installing latest drivers as per garys thread is there anything to uninstall first or install new drivers right over old ones?
If you are just swapping in the new motherboard, you shouldn't have to install any drivers or anything - they are all still resident in the existing Win install. Windows'll probably rediscover some stuff (my hard drives, for example) but there is no need to install drivers (unless you want to update from older version) - in which case you can just install overtop the existing ones.
you guys installing HD's on the 6Gb ports and cd/dvd/bd on the 3Gb ports?
I'm waiting for Superbiiz to get the Gigabyte UD4 in stock then I'll initiate the RMA with them.
It's not OEM it's retail... it's probably because I've activated too many times (3) in the past month.
Original build then decided to go raid 0 then again with this B3 version.
I should remember to uncheck the "auto activate when online" box!