The system will start booting for about ten seconds, then either instantly reboot, or stop on a blue screen, depending on whether it's set to automatically reboot on blue screens or not. Change the SATA channel your system drive is on, or if you drive is (parallel) ATA, swap it from Master to Slave. The moment it takes control of the disks from BIOS, it crashes.
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That's obvious, right? However, if the hard disk is supposed to be in one place, and then suddenly moves to another, Windows has no idea what's going on. The reason all this is necessary is because Windows has to load from a hard disk. There's a lot of pagan mythology about just what to do when swapping the motherboard, starting with "Nuke the site from orbit" and "Just buy another Dell", to more educated guesses involving repair installs, and (if we're really technical) the sysprep utility.
This article is intended to show you a better way around one of the more common triggers of the reformat fetish-swapping out the motherboard. Turned the speakers on? Well, you never know. Upgraded CPU? Better reformat to be sure. Changed video card? That'll be a reformatting. In its essence, it's the irrational compulsion to format one's hard disk at the drop of a hat.
Like partitions, extended memory, and BSD, it's a strange fossil remnant of a more brutal time that, for one reason or another, staunchly refuses to lay down and die. The post is based on an excellent thread on the same topic, which everyone who's contemplating a motherboard swap should check out first. Ed: The following is a guest post by Ars CPU & Mobo forum guru Hat Monster.
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