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    Solved Dead Motherboard, replace with ??

    Ok everyone, thank you for the input. I have taken it on board. We can close this thread. BTW, can I do that myself somehow? Bert regards Bernt
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    Solved Dead Motherboard, replace with ??

    The broken computer was my previous work (office) computer and the company basically threw it out when it smoked itself. It had run non stop24/7 since 2016 with only the power supply dying once in 2022 and the graphics card fan becoming noisy (All that was fixed). The MB died in 2023. My aim is...
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    Solved Dead Motherboard, replace with ??

    I have a PC with blown Asus Z97 Gryphon ATX motherboard. Smoke came out near the CPU from a small IC or regulator or transistor- dead. The PC power supply is good (I tesed it) and almost new, so its the high end graphics card, SDD, etc. I want to replace the motherboard. My dilemma: Try and...
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    Solved Replace PC motherboard / CPU but use old Windows license?

    Ok, thank you admin. (@admin: This forum does not send me notifications about replies on anything, despite all notifications being enabled in my profile settings. I have attached a screenshot for you. @all helpers: That is good news that I can re-use the Windows license. I will try this...
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    Solved Replace PC motherboard / CPU but use old Windows license?

    Hello I have a PC with blown Asus Z97 ATX motherboard. Smoke came out - dead. Rest of PC is usable I would like to purchase a used motherboard for this but re-use the original Windows license from my damaged PC. If install the "new" motherboard and boot form a windows recovery memory stick...
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    Solved Cloned Hard drive does not boot

    I have it working now!!! I fised it. Old school. I used diskpart to delete the partitions on the new drive. The I used diskpart to convert to MBR. The I created a new partition. Thereafter, I re-cloned. The Macrium Reflect then cloned it as MBR this time. @PeterOz: One would assume that...
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    Solved Cloned Hard drive does not boot

    I just discovered that my old disk is is an MBR and the new disk is GPT. That seems to be the main difference.
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    Solved Cloned Hard drive does not boot

    This was a corporate PC long before I obtained it. It must have cost big $$. I use it for WFH. I am an engineer and I use it at least 8h per day. Yes, all the partitions were cloned and it was successful. They just cannot activate or become bootable. Or at least not with the knowledge and tools...
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    Solved Cloned Hard drive does not boot

    Let me rephrase the question: How do I transfer everything from a working SCSI drive to a new SATA drive ? My source drive is error free and 100% working. Re=installing is not a good option since a lot of applications and stuff that I use are no longer available. The CDs are gone. My...
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    Solved Cloned Hard drive does not boot

    No, the newly cloned is SATA drive is not working (not booting), no change. Only the old SCSI drives boot. Both can boot but one is full of errors. I really need to somehow get the SATA drive to take over from the old SCSI drives.
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    Solved Cloned Hard drive does not boot

    Well, at some stage during this struggle, I deleted the RAID array in the BIOS of the SAS controller. The drive then became a normal SCSI harddrive and it boots and operates fine. Similarly, my 2nd 'faulty' harddrive from the array, also boots fine when I exchange it for the good one. So I...
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    Solved Cloned Hard drive does not boot

    Hello, My SAS RAID1 system using SCSI drives failed last week with one drive broken. (12 years old!) I decided to change to SATA as SCSI is too expensive. I cloned my good working old SAS SCSI drive to a newer SATA drive using Macrium Reflect. The old drive on the SAS controller but without...
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