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Motherboard Swap...

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My son's system has been plagued with BSOD's for a while. Most happen when you plug a USB device into it. It is an Asus X58 sabertooth with an i7 920 running win 7 x64. I have re-installed chipset drivers, updated the bios, swapped video cards and even memory chips, and the BSOD's continue.

I have a spare p6t motherboard sitting around. If I uninstall all of the chipset drivers, throw the replacement board in will win 7 be able to handle it?

My son has lived with the nuisance for a long time because of all of the custom mods he has done to installed simulator software.

Any insight on making this a smooth transition?
 
If they are both X58 chipsets you shouldn't really have to do much of anything. It may ask you to re-activate windows but other than that the only things you have to worry about are different NIC/audio drivers or possible RAID controller if you use that.
 
Not sure what the p6t is chipset wise, I though it was something different... Will the swap cause the need to reactivate windows?
 
X58 is the only chipset out there for 1366 desktop use IIRC. And yes, the swap usually will cause windoze to want to re-activate. If you can't do it automatically just use the phone system, it takes like 5 minutes but works every time.
 
how about a new drive? It seems you have not found the probelm and you want to swap boards out..........mmm


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How about just starting with a fresh install of Windows? If you're getting BSODs, what are the codes?
 
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