Thread: How does Windows 7 handle Motherboard and CPU replacement?
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Old 22-09-2011, 23:34   #11
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Re: How does Windows 7 handle Motherboard and CPU replacement?
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Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
The startup repair doesn't replace the HAL so is useless for hardware changes..
So basically what your saying is that when I changed my motherboard from one made by msi to one made by Gigabyte I shouldn't have been able to boot into windows and windows shouldn't have automatically installed the relevent drivers.
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