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Swapping my Motherboard win 7 64
Hi, I plan on swapping my motherboard again due to having two dead USB ports. Fortunately I have 2 absolutely same motherboards and all the hardware installed even the cpus and memory were built at the same time. My replacement has very limited hours on it, probably less than 40 or 50 so I think it is time to stop stalling and make the change. I do not use the spare and it has sat idle for several years with limited booting a couple times to keep the system updated. I will use the reset to force hardware checking again first boot.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\pciide
Not using Raid
My only system change before I do the swap is to set my onboard audio back to ON and turn off my other sound card until I have it booting again. I doubt that would have any effect anyway since all the drivers are identical and installed already. I have replaced motherboards using this approach already so it went smooth and painlessly.
If anyone can think of anything that I missed It would be appreciated to shout out and tell me.
I still have all the installer disc so if needed I have access to make repairs, like everyone else I just don't want to. I plan on retiring this machine soon due to age and limitation for newest software, I keep putting it off but with another win 10 machine I built having a destructive USB port I still hesitate with all my daily important communications on it. I read that win 10 would probably take the drive and run with it without any registry changes, because it was much better than win 7.
So if I missed anything other than these two registry resets feel free to tell me.
Thanks