PC problem.

If you had to sort it out, a call to Microsoft, explaining that your motherboard had failed and you'd replaced it with an identical or even similar one would get it re-licenced.

Telling them that the PSU failed and cooked the motherboard and you've had to replace motherboard, processor and memory (with a 5 years newer design) seems to be okay even!

SteveW

When I built a second PC back in the day, I cloned the HD of the first one to save the effort of loading in all the extra software. Didn't have a problem then either. ;-) Even with then talking to one another.

I'm a bit surprised that you don't have to competely reinstall W7 from scratch. Is the 'new' motherboard exactly the same spec as the old one ?.

When I swapped the SSD from one laptop to another I didn't have a problem even though one was AMD and the other Intel.

That was win10 though.

Its still going on the AMD after I cloned the intel SSD onto a new SSD and put the old one back in the AMD laptop.

Win10 doesn't care it just sorts it out on the first boot and then checks for updates.

They didn't have much in common..

The old one AMD is a Medion 1gHz AMD A4 CPU 2G RAM (IIRC)

The intel one is a Lenovo yoga S1 with touch screen and wacom digitizer built in.

Never needed to do that. But I did buy a legit full version to start with.

Unlikely given that he said it said it was updating drivers.

And even if it wont boot, a repair install will fix that problem.

Even if you go from an Intel M/B to an AMD M/B ?