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Depends on the O/S. Windows can be a PITA if you change the storage controller. There are a few ways round it though.

 

Win7.

 

Currently have gigabyte mobo with AMD X2 cpu. Want to switch to intel core2duo or i3. Not fussed about the motherboard as long as it's solid, with 4 memory slots, 2 PCIe slots and a decent BIOS.

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There's some tool you can get which blitz's the storage controller settings before you change mobo. Basically it means it'll re-detect the new controller on next boot instead of BSOD'ing.

 

Get it here: http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/...ws/MergeIDE.zip

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Easiest way? Just reinstall the OS on the OS hdd after you've replaced the mobo and CPU, the media hdds should be fine (as long as you dont accidentally format them or anything)

 

Wanted to try and avoid it because ive got all my mediacentre GUI settings on the OS partition and i dont really fancy setting them all up again if i can just plug and play.

 

There's some tool you can get which blitz's the storage controller settings before you change mobo. Basically it means it'll re-detect the new controller on next boot instead of BSOD'ing.

 

Get it here: http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/...ws/MergeIDE.zip

 

Cheers stu.

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