Killer Mobo

[The boy 4rm oz]

Hi I am gonna buy a Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo and i was wondering if i need 2 reformat my harddrive if i keep my current 1. I have read sum reviews and they have said that u dont have 2 and others say that u do so i just wanno know. And if i reformat my harddrive do i have 2 re-install windows and all of the drivers? Can any1 help me?

[public_eyesore]

you do, unless its the same model

[Jetty_200]

I would suggest backing everything up though....might be of some help ya :P lol

[bigbaddog]

Hi I am gonna buy a Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo and i was wondering if i need 2 reformat my harddrive if i keep my current 1. I have read sum reviews and they have said that u dont have 2 and others say that u do so i just wanno know. And if i reformat my harddrive do i have 2 re-install windows and all of the drivers? Can any1 help me?
Yea-and probably have to re-activate windows too-call "Raheam" at microsoft activation center-and don't tell'em you eat cows:eek:

[public_eyesore]

why cant microsoft just detect that its the same computer that xp was installed on before. Im sure there is a way like the cpu has it own unique serial number or somthing

[bcampbell91]

in response to public eyesore, they can do a windows detection by cpu like a lot of software corporations out there, ik for instance that everytime i use macromedia some transmission is sent via internet with my cpu serial # and the id# of the software to see if they match up. the reason microsoft wont do it is in the event that someone would use different computers and only one cpu (absurd ik but its the truth and microsoft can just suck sometimes by being hard headed and paranoid of piracy).

[public_eyesore]

piracy?!?! they sold copies to malaysia for like 3 bucks a copy. Microsoft is gay and companies not making linux products are even gayer

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks 4 that but i dont have the internet 2 reactivte windows on my comp yet. I'll have 2 get a roughter and use dads connection.

[OvRiDe]

... and companies not making linux products are even gayer

Amen brother!!!

[notochord]

Yea-and probably have to re-activate windows too-call "Raheam" at microsoft activation center-and don't tell'em you eat cows:eek:

wow thats not an A hole comment

[DaveW]

I'm not touching that with a 60 foot pole. This is a bomb waiting to go off.

-Dave

[XcOM]

strangly you don't need to re-install or format, just start windows, you will get lag the first 3 or 4 times you boot, but this is becuase its installing drivers, and as for windows activiation it will just ask for re-activation, just call, you get 5 re-activations per code.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks you guys have been heaps of help.

[digital_exhaust]

One method I've have tried, successfully, is a small registry edit. I learned this through someone on another forum, so I will take no credit for this, I just hope it can help you.
If your uncomfortable working with your registry, this is probably not something you'll want to try, but it has worked for me several times.

Open regedit (start>run>type in REGEDIT and click ok), find HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG>SYSTEM>CURRENTCONTROLSET>ENUM
Delete the entire ENUM key, close regedit and shut down. Rebuild your system, boot normally and Windows will detect your new hardware and build profiles, and from there your good to go. It may take a couple re-starts for it to run smoothly.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks man thats great help.

[therealjoe]

when you get a new motherboard it is considered as a new system which is annoying so evrytime you reinstall windows with the same motherboard you wont need to register on the phone but when you get a new motherboard windows thinks its a completly different computer

[mszo]

I got a pretty noob question...

if you dont use windows but have a lnux system instead, how do you run all the apps you have for windows. I mean...there isnt nearly as many things for linux as there is for windows


and yeah, that comment was definetly a-hole

[bartvandenberg]

am i the only person in the world that doesnt activate windows? who on earth wants to go trhough that crap everytime you reformate a hd. anyone here ever heard of wpakill.safe? kills that pesky windows product activation b.s. by only changing a couple registry settings. used it for years, never had any issues with my registry.

[therealjoe]

i wish i read that earlier i was on the phone for about an hour trying to activate windows last week lol