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On 2014-06-06, Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>    I am just ranting here.  No new information to
> be gained.
>
>    Upgraded a Fedora Core 20 customer's motherboard,
> processor, memory and case.  I swapped his DVD drive
> and two hard drives over into the new case.  His old
> machine was a Core 2 Duo.  New one is a core 3 with
> a Q87 chipset.
>
>    And, it just booted up.  Including fsck'ing both
> drives, running his updates, it too me 1 hr and 6
> minutes.  TOTAL!
>
>     It just worked.  New motherboard, new chip set,
> new (on board) video card, and all.  IT JUST WORKED!
> The customer is tickled!
>
>     Now, I have done this on Windows machines too.
> OH HOLY CRAP the garbage and hoops you have to
> jump through.  You have to do a full "in place"
> reinstall of Windows, hunt down all the idiot new
> drivers, reinstall all the patches (lots of luck
> doing them all at once - they crash each other),
> etc..
>
>     I especially like the one where it won't let you
> use the thing until you re-register it, but you
> can't re-register it as the pop up block everything
> else, including booting.  (I figured a work around.)
>
>     I have said this before, the only reason people
> use Windows is the humongous off the shelf availability
> of standardized software.   (Now you know, you must use
> Quick Books and Office, or it will stunt your growth!)
>
>     I will get off my soap box now.
>
> -T
>

No idea what/how you did the mb swap &/or new case.  I've just
changed the mb & use the same hdd since the 3.1 days thru to
win7 now.  Never had a problem with booting/running windows;
did have to re-register/activate because win checks the hardware
for differences & the biggest point change is the check for the nic.
Didn't matter if the cpu was also changed because of the newer
mb sine the biggest point getter is the nic.

The old windows newsgroups had a "howto" count the hardware
points that would require a registering with microsoft as how many
points is supposed to indicate a different set of hardware (m$ thinks
that this is to prevent "cheating").

Haven't tried doing a mb swap with win8 & probably won't; may not
even do it with win9 if it is subscription based.

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hardware upgrade comment Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-06 12:59 -0700
  Re: hardware upgrade comment lew <citrustwosac@google.mailer.company.invalid> - 2014-06-07 01:28 +0000
    Re: hardware upgrade comment sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2014-06-07 04:18 +0000
      Re: hardware upgrade comment lew <citrustwosac@google.mailer.company.invalid> - 2014-06-07 16:42 +0000
        Re: hardware upgrade comment Jan Pieter <jp@jp.dhs.orig> - 2014-06-09 13:23 +0200
          Re: hardware upgrade comment lew <citrustwosac@google.mailer.company.invalid> - 2014-06-09 16:22 +0000
            Re: hardware upgrade comment Jan Pieter <jp@jp.dhs.orig> - 2014-06-09 19:00 +0200
            Re: hardware upgrade comment noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2014-06-09 23:16 +0000
              Re: hardware upgrade comment lew <citrustwosac@google.mailer.company.invalid> - 2014-06-10 01:30 +0000
                Re: hardware upgrade comment noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2014-06-10 03:42 +0000
    Re: hardware upgrade comment Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-07 12:03 -0700
  Re: hardware upgrade comment faeychild <faeychild@noname.afraid.org> - 2014-06-07 11:30 +1000
  Re: hardware upgrade comment Rahul <nospam@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-11 04:21 +0000
    Re: hardware upgrade comment Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-10 21:41 -0700
      Re: hardware upgrade comment Rahul <nospam@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-11 07:36 +0000
        Re: hardware upgrade comment Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-11 07:43 -0700
          Re: hardware upgrade comment Rahul <nospam@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-11 19:32 +0000
            Re: hardware upgrade comment William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-06-11 20:39 +0000
              Re: hardware upgrade comment Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-11 14:28 -0700
            Re: hardware upgrade comment Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-11 14:27 -0700
    Re: hardware upgrade comment William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-06-11 07:44 +0000
      Re: hardware upgrade comment Baho Utot <baho-utot@invalid.com> - 2014-06-11 09:58 -0400
    Re: hardware upgrade comment Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-06-11 20:10 +0000

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