Motherboard Replacement

[Rikarius]

Hi all,
I am having to replace the motherboard on an old HP M8417c AMD Athlon 64 x3 Asus M2N68-LA GLE Narra3 motherboard which died without warning. I am replacing with the same motherboard as original, unfortunately. Will I have to reinstall windows? I did not get a disc with system only on hard drive. Running Vista 64 home premium. I do have backup disc on secondary drive but am hoping I don't have to use it, not real sure how reliable software used to backup is and hoping not to have to find out. Thanks for the help.

 

[NoelDP]

If the motherboard is the same, then it shouldn't require a reinstall, or re-activation, although a change in MAC address can trigger the latter anyhow

 

[Patonb]

As said above, nope you're plug n play.

 

[NoelDP]

As said above, nope you're plug n play.

Duh? OP's first post is #1 - then my response, then that??

 

[Patonb]

As said above, nope you're plug n play.

Duh? OP's first post is #1 - then my response, then that??

Huh?