Hey maybe a retarded question but if I buy a new motherboard, can I just plug my hard drive back in and have it run no problems?

In theory, yes.

@Gerrymandered I'm going to go from Intel to Intel, (But I am changing CPU generation) so I assume I wouldn't even need to change my damn drivers. It's just a server so I don't need graphics or nothing the only actual "driver" I have installed is the WLAN driver, and since I'm keeping the wireless card, that shouldn't be an issue.

I could see the problems if I was going from like x64 to x86, or even if I was changing from Intel to AMD. But Intel to newer, better Intel? I assume would be plug and play, essentially.

There might be driver issues

@AlgoRythm yeah should seem fine, but remember, computers are magical so you never know 😂

@Alice pink pessimist.

Without trouble? I highly doubt it.

I don't know how relevant this thread is as it's for win7 but I'll post it anyway https://superuser.com/questions/...

It's possible to tweak even your current mobo's bios settings so that the os won't boot properly. On the other extreme, you may not have to touch anything.

From doing multiple years of tech support,
it's gonna be shit. Fuck all of you that say it's gonna be fine. It's not. If you think this way you are naive and inexperienced.

As soon as you port windows over to a new system, it's gonna freak out. In theory deinstalling and reinstalling all necessary drivers should fix this, but it doesn't.

Because windows is windows and always keeps its hidden cached garbage somewhere thats gonna cause trouble.

Even if it works
a) performance will not be optimal
b) windows will eventually start doing weird shit.

Do yourself a favor. Backup the data, wipe the drive, start from scratch. It's just not worth the massive headache.

@AlgoRythm I saw your comment after I posted. You *could* be fine.

I've been doing that for years. Prior to Windows 7 was always problematic, and I had to make sure I uninstalled drivers, especially for video. Never had issues doing that with 7/8/10 though.

Yes and no.

You will have driver issues, but those are (usually) easily remedied so long as you have the appropriate network drivers on hand. Just be sure to uninstall all the previous drivers and mobo bloatware.

If you're using windows, it may decide it's being pirated and deactivate itself. This was much more common on 7 and lower, though, since windows licenses were actually an income stream for Microsoft back then. Now that income has been more than replaced by Windows data mining, so. Simply using the OS gets them paid; they don't much care if you bought it anymore.

You might also run into boot issues, depending on your setup, and all overclocking tweaks will obviously disappear.

That's about it, though.

Oh, and be sure to flash your new mobo's bios with the latest version.

@Root Well, they do care about licensing monis. But only in business contexts. Microsoft doesn't really give a fuck about normal end users.

The amount of money they make from businesses is a magnitude larger.

Interestingly enough the tax people are the first ro question the legitimacy of your licenses.

Fucking taxes.

worked for me, so I guess yes, you could do that

@beggarboy @iAmNaN @Root @Krokoklemme

It's Ubuntu Server with some server software installed (NodeJS, MySQL, Java, etc.) - not even a DE to freak out (Which, in my experience, it really doesn't take much to freak out an X11 server).

The most likely thing to break is the broadcom drivers. @Root same card as you have. But I have installed these drivers a hundred thousand times over by now so I think that will not be an issue.

Its just upgrading the motherboard from some old stock motherboard with two dead memory channels and it's ancient intel i5 650. I'm even sticking with the same family, going to a newer i5. And while I'm at it, might as well upgrade from 2 GB memory to 16 GB right?

So, in conclusion, very hopeful that it will go as planned.

On windows that would be a big problem because of drivers. In linux most common drivers are part of the kernel, so in this instance this should help a bunch.

If you're paranoid, take a second hdd and clone yourcurrent while booted from clone zilla in live mode.

@AlgoRythm Linux has always handled hw changes better. I don't know if there's anything to worry about.

You can't really call two i5s from different generations the same family. The only thing they have in common is the market position (price).

@AlgoRythm you shouldve told us its a ubuntu. You're gonne be fine

Best way to do it is to use a backup software than can restore to dissimilar hardware. After you restore your backup to the new hardware you may still have to fix bootloader issues and install proper drivers but Windows can absolutely handle he move to new hardware just fine.

@Gerrymandered @netikras @alice @bahua @electrineer @beggarboy @iamnan @root @krokoklemme @wack @arcadesdude

Update: It worked without a single issue.

@AlgoRythm Yay!

@AlgoRythm well done :)

@AlgoRythm awesome!