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Replacing Mobo, need help!

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secretjade

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first let me say I've done some searches but didn't find anything.
Doesn't mean there not there I just couldn't find it and I only have access to the net for 3 more hours. (I'm at work and my home computer is dead to me)

System specs:

Striker extreme mobo
Q6600
4gb corsair dominator
2 X 8800GTX
Win vista ultimate 64

I have been having problems with my striker extreme mobo since I put it in last fall.
Lately the "det dram" has been popping up every time I cold boot.
I have read many threads and tried to voltage fixes to no avail.

Problems as of this morning:

-System wouldn't wake out of hibernate.
-rebooted and had major display driver failures.
-rebooted and couldn't get past "det dram"
-still no luck.

I'm sick of the striker extreme, regardless of if it's the total problem.
Couldnt get it to overclock worth mentioning and has always been an issue for me.

So, I just purchased a XFX 780i Sli board.

How/what steps do I take to use my previous components?
I want to keep my hard drive with vista.

Thanks
 
You can keep all of your previous components.

As for your install of Vista, I'm not sure how well Vista does with complete motherboard changes, but I much prefer to do a clean install.
 
Thanks for the info. What I'm worried about is keeping my files on vista.
If I do a clean install won't I loose everything?
 
Usually when you do a clean install of Vista, it'll make a complete backup of your old windows install that you can access after you get it installed. It's located under the windows.old directory on the C:\ drive.

I would still make a backup of any important documents and whatnot if you do install a fresh copy...just in case.
 
can't do a backup because I can't get the computer to post past det dram.
What about all the program loaded through vista? Will I have to reload them or will it save that infor in the windows old file?
Can you restore applications?
 
I have normal backups with norton 360 saved on another drive.

If I do a fresh install, reload norton can I recover those files from the backup?
 
secretjade said:
I have normal backups with norton 360 saved on another drive.

If I do a fresh install, reload norton can I recover those files from the backup?
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What do you mean by "normal" backups?

Are those backups of the whole OS or just some data?

Here's the problem you're going to run into trying to do what you want.

You could theoretically use a startup boot disk that would allow you to rename the Windows folder to something else, and then install Vista to the default location on the drive. However, when you install programs most write to the registry, and thus even if you are on a new install of Vista but are still on the same HD you won't be able to load any programs that were dependent on the registry.

Secondly if you use your Ghost backup, it's going to go ahead and reinstall the OS from the image for you, but however like I said earlier using the same OS install on a new motherboard doesn't always play nice with the chip setup changes.

If I was in your situation, I'd do the following...

If you have another harddrive you can throw in there, use it to boot some sort of DOS boot disc that would allow you to copy over important files to the new hard drive (talking data, not installed programs or the like). Another thing you could do is throw the old hard drive into a different computer and copy over the files.

Once you have any important data backed up, I'd just go ahead and wipe and do a complete reinstall.
 
My friend had your mobo and started getting a "det dram" error on that little LCD that comes with the mobo. We switched the RAM to the other dimm slots which solved the problem until a month or two later when the problem came back.

We both thought it was probably the mobo but it ended up being the RAM. Just a heads up.
 
If it doesn't boot, just install windows without reformatting. It will "delete" the old windows install and copy over it. All of your files will still be there. Boot into it (It'll probably run like ass), copy what you need and then restart/reformat/reinstall.

I had to do this the other day.
 
run the repair install. it will swap out your system files, and keep your apps and data. you should be able to boot into windows ok. if not, try booting into safe mode, back up your files, then do clean install. but the repair install should work for you.
 
So I installed the new mobo and just wanted to see what would happen if I booted up Vista.

Everything booted first try and it installed new drivers, recognized the new mobo and changed the setting.
I went to Microsoft and installed update and it said I had a valid copy of vista.

I have been running it for 24hrs now with no problems. Everything is running like a champ.
Am I OK or will I soon be doomed to failures?

Seems good to me.
 
secretjade said:
... Am I OK or will I soon be doomed to failures? ...
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Is that the 780i SLI FTW model? If not, maybe. :p Did you test your RAM like the other guy suggested? Run memtest overnight and while you're at work.
 
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