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Kymmy · 22-09-2011, 13:50

It simple will not work. The HAL probably will crash and as win7 doesn't have the same repair option as found on XP but instead you have to run it from within windows there's simply no way of correcting it without a full rebuild.

I did this myself recently and was going from one nvidia chipset motherboard to another (same chipset just different revision) and the HAL fell over on me.

22-09-2011, 13:50	#4
Kymmy Inactive Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 18,385	Re: How does Windows 7 handle Motherboard and CPU replacement? It simple will not work. The HAL probably will crash and as win7 doesn't have the same repair option as found on XP but instead you have to run it from within windows there's simply no way of correcting it without a full rebuild. I did this myself recently and was going from one nvidia chipset motherboard to another (same chipset just different revision) and the HAL fell over on me.