M/B replacement
 

I need to replace the mother board on my Acer 5517 laptop.
I have ordered a new replacement (#PGY02.001).

Can i just drop the new board in or will I have to do a reinstall of Win7?:huh:

As long as the MB is the same, there is no reason to think it would need to be re-installed.
You should be fine.

DM

What DM says -
However, be prepared to do a reinstall, anyway.
"Stuff happens"! :)

rossfingal

Good point Ross..... it IS windows, after all. :laughing:

DM

You said it! -
I didn't! :)
(He, he, he!)

If it was XP - the "OP" would probably, have to do a "reactivation".
I'm not, that familiar with Win 7.

"RM"

Thanks for the comments! I searched MS support and if the machine came with an OEM OS they said that the OS is associated with a particular board, and new copy of Win7 must be purchased.
However, they did say that if the board is not upgraded and the new is identical to the old, it may be OK!
I suppose, I'll just have to try it and see! :eek:

Yeah, that's why I don't like to buy computers with the "OS"already installed.
Even if they come with recovery/"OS" discs!

If you can, go into the "BIOS" and copy all the settings -
so that you can use those same settings for your new "MB".

If your new "MB" is identical to the old "MB" -
you should be OK!
Try to make sure that your memory "chips" - any, "add-on" cards - etc...
are in the identical "slots" - that they were in on your old "MB"!
Including your "drives"!
Watch your "cabling" - and "electro-static" discharge! :)
Also, depending on your "Processor", use fresh, 'heat-sink" paste - between the processor and
the cooling fan!
Good luck!!! :)

rossfingal

(Let us know!)

I ditched Win 7 and have been running a Linux distro,never looked back.

thanks Ross! It is a laptop and there's not much room for variations! Memory perhaps, but this memory lays one on top of the other so I'll just plug em in the same way.

My old desktop m/b died so I bought a new machine. Then. I bought a new m/b for my old machine. Hated to see the case and periferals junked, ut didn't want to buy another copy of Windows so installed Ubuntu 11.10.
I'm stll trying to figure it out, but so far I'm impressed!

"Wildie"

Stick with "Ubuntu" - give it some time -
It's pretty, good - as far as I know!
rossfingal

I couldn't find a whole bunch of things in ubuntu I needed to use it. Even when looking on line to get help!

@!#@!#@!#@!@$@^$#!%$#!$#@!

DM

for those looking for info on linux, here are a couple of links that I find invaluble:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ Lots of help there no matter what your question might be.

http://www.die.net/ online man pages / manual pages. Good info.

For the OP, be careful moving the processor from the old mobo to the new mobo. Like Ross said, use fresh heat sink paste or you could fry the processor in no time. Good luck.

I've dabbled in Ubuntu.
It's fairly easy to use. My kids even used it for awhile as a test!!

I'm pretty sure they are wrong. The issue is that if the hardware configuration changes to a certain degree, Windows will require you to re-authenticate the installed copy either online or over the phone.

Changing the motherboard alone is enough to trigger the need for reauthing, but you can do it with any copy of Windows, be it OEM or retail. It's simply a way for Microsoft to make sure you don't install one registered copy on multiple machines. I have OEM copies of both WinXP and Win7 running on machines that I routinely upgrade with new components, including motherboards and processors, and reauthing is an easy process.

That, said, the motherboard on a laptop these days includes pretty much everything...processor, sound, graphics, wireless, so it may behave a little different. I have not tried it with a laptop but I'm going to assume that reauthing is the same.