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Trying to find a Good Replacement Motherboard (UPDATE)!!
NEW Update; So I ended up Upgrading to another Motherboard, so I admit It is much better cutting what little loss I took, they had a sale where if I bought an AMD FX 4100 Black Edition 3.6GHz Quad Core Processor for $100 I could get a ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS MotherBoard for $10 Bucks, so I was like sweet, I Upgraded to a Cooler Master eXtreme Power Plus 500 Watt PSU, and 8 GB of Kingston HyperX blu DDR3-1333 ram, although I wish I would have put in a little extra for some better ram I guess this is working out good for me though, its still faster then what I had. I should'a just listened to the people who said to upgrade to something better in the first place! Thanks!
So I Booted My Windows 7 x64 OEM that I already had installed on My Hard drive on my new ASUS Mother Board, and I Installed all of the Drivers, and Let Catalist Install the right Graffix Support Drivers, then Rebooted and I went to System to check My Windows Activation and it said i had 3 days to Activate, so I clicked Activate and my Windows Reactivated its self, so I had no issues with replacing my Motherboard, Windows 7 should reactivate for you when you change your Motherboard, I even had 3 dudes at Microcenter confirm this!
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OLD POST
So I have been needing to replace my motherboard it is a Gateway RS780 (AM2) Motherboard with 4 slots for DDR2 SDRAM, I must have 4 slots for my memory.
Does anybody have any suggestions on a replacement? should I replace it with a factory default MB? will other MBs even fit in my Gateway crappy Hot Case? I actually found a -> factory default acer MB<-, which is gateway/acer/emachines for $39.99 HMN??
Also I am using a OEM version of Windows 7 x64, do I need to patch the bios of a new motherboard if it is not a Gateway MB so my windows doesn't say Not Genuine after I get done replacing the MB and boot windows? How do I do this so I do not have any issues? I have replaced Motherboards in the past but I always had a retail version of xp to start fresh with.
I should just sell this thing on Craigslist when I fix it and Build myself a real Machine with a nice case. somthing I can render a 8GB 2hr video in like 10 minutes. would be nice. but what can I sell it for? like 300 bucks if I put a new motherboard in it? or is that too much?
Last edited by Warlockz; 30 Jan 2012 at 15:19. Reason: Update Info!