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I'm changing the motherboard in one of my computers as it has failed, but I'm unsure if I could get an AMD board, which is cheaper (so I'd get more 'bang for the buck'), and do a straight swap, as the old one is an Intel-based board.

I've swapped many a motherboard and the only problems I usually get are small driver issues which can be easily resolved once Windows has booted. But AMD is completely new territory to me, so all I'm really asking is if the windows 7 installation on the hard drives will be configured to accept an AMD motherboard. I say hard drives because I think they are setup as a Raid 0 array, which I'm guessing is my biggest problem.

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    Most likely you'll need to boot from Windows installation media and do a repair. Other than that there's nothing peculiar about AMD.
    – user772515
    Commented Apr 8, 2018 at 22:07
  • @MichaelBay What about the fact that it's a raid 0 across two HDDs, do you think that would be a problem? I can't even remember how I set the RAID up, but I don't think it was a BIOS configuration.
    – n00dles
    Commented Apr 8, 2018 at 22:46
  • Please note and understand that a comment isn't an answer. If I had the intention to answer your question I would have done it in the proper format. Instead I merely pointed out the obvious part. Now, regarding the RAID, if you don't even know how it was set, that alone makes that part pretty much unanswerable.
    – user772515
    Commented Apr 8, 2018 at 22:57
  • @MichaelBay Yes, you're right Michael. You should only use comments to ask for more information or clarification so you can make an informed answer.
    – n00dles
    Commented Apr 8, 2018 at 23:28
  • See this, but there will be activation issues....sevenforums.com/tutorials/…
    – Moab
    Commented Apr 8, 2018 at 23:32

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