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I needed to add some storage space to my server so I swapped motherboards. Worked flawlessly without requiring a reinstall. Had to reactivate, but that's no biggy. I must have tried 7 or 8 motherboard swaps in Vista and it NEVER worked. I always had to wipe and reinstall.
Yet another thing to love about Win7
Sat, 11/28/2009 - 2:21am
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Yet another thing to love about Win7
Sun, 11/29/2009 - 2:29am
#3
Xman,
What motherboard chipset? It was always the driver for storage that caused the major problems. When going from an Nvidia board to a similar Nvidia board, it always worked for me under Windows XP.
Sun, 11/29/2009 - 8:44am
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They were different chipsets. I was always able to get it working in XP as well but Vista for some reason just would not cooperate.
Is anybody else sharing recorded TV? Holy crap that's a great feature if you have more than one HTPC!
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 9:32am
#5
I created a library named recorded TV on all my pcs and then pointed them to a homegroup share with read\write rights on the HTPC\Server's recorded TV folder.
The only issue I have is on my ION system. Occasionally the latest recordings don't refresh and then the WAF drops as she panics thinking the Biggest Loser didn't get recorded.
I never had the misfortune to try and install Vista but my Win 7 install was the smoothest OS install I ever experienced this side of OS X. I'm surprised you had an issue with Vista when doing a motherboard swap as I have always been able to do it in Win XP and 2K with no problems. The OS would just keep finding new hardware and prompt me for drivers. OTOH, I generally prefer to perform a fresh install with a new mobo just to start off with a clean slate. In fact, I like to do a complete reinstall every couple of years just to clear out all the crap I've accumulated, which can be quite considerable.