mobo died didnt have time to back up

[leafer]

no benchmarks. i cant stand reading reviews w all that tech pillow talk. i decided because this one guy posted his experience using his i3, 5, 7 n 6300 n how they feel to him. he stresses the importance of pairing whatever chip u end up w ssd. to him the i5 feels only slightly faster but not significant enough to warrant the extra 100 usd. i7, of course, is blazing fast but if one cant afford it then 6300 is a better choice than i5.

[Bucic]

no benchmarks. i cant stand reading reviews w all that tech pillow talk. i decided because this one guy posted his experience using his i3, 5, 7 n 6300 n how they feel to him. he stresses the importance of pairing whatever chip u end up w ssd. to him the i5 feels only slightly faster but not significant enough to warrant the extra 100 usd. i7, of course, is blazing fast but if one cant afford it then 6300 is a better choice than i5.

What applications he used to describe his feelings? ;)

[leafer]

never mind. he compared fx 6300 to i5 3320m n i7 3770 both of which r ivy bridge.

 

still, I'm happy w my decision which cost me 150 bucks less. thats a lot of money here. if I had gone i5 I know I'd have post purchase regret. lol

Edited January 31, 2015 by leafer

[Inrideo]

You likely won't be able to boot into your old windows on the new motherboard unless you get the same chipset. In most cases Windows will blue screen on boot due to lack of drivers for your new motherboard and cpu.

[leafer]

I need 4 parts to get this thing up n running again n I buy a part a moth. one down three to go. that means i have a few months to let that sink in before I come to terms. lol another plus is by the time I bought everything, Edge has been released the night before. mark my word!

[Inrideo]

I bought some of my parts over time as well. Like upgrading to the GT 650 video card, then a Fortress 750 power supply a while back. That made a big dent in what I had to pay for the core upgrades to get this box running.

 

Building this rig wasn't painless though. I used my backup drive to move all my files from my old machine in preparation for the build. But I got distracted and left the drive connected before using a secure wipe utility on the old computer. (Since I'm selling it to subsidize the upgrade).

 

That unfortunate lapse of memory resulted in my backup drive getting wiped completely. All my data from the last 15 years gone. Thousands of pictures of my dogs growing up and other stuff. My entire music collection. All the video courses I downloaded during a two year subscription to CGCookie.

 

Poof. I almost tossed my cookies when I realized what had happened. It was brutal.

 

Dead computers or hard drives can be heartbreaking.

 

Funny thing is that DCS was on my SSD, so it was already safely disconnected and out of that computer when it wiped. So at least that was one thing I didn't have to download again on the new computer.

[leafer]

owww. that hurts just hearing it from you. fifteen years of memory disappeared so easily; sorry to hear that. i lost a chunk of my daughter's pics from her esrly years, too, but that was all me. im lousy at organizing things. I know i burned them to a disc that i have no idea where they are.

[BitMaster]

1st:

There is NO cure for not having a proper backup, that is one thing up front !

 

Make it while you can !!! Best advice from an admin

 

2nd:

Even if you had a backup, it would need to be Bare Metal Capable to restore to full functionality.

With Win7 and the HAL haunt gone you have better chances than with XP, but your milage may vary a lot depending on chipset and CPU compatibility.

 

Do yourself a favour and save some big headaches and time: Do a FRESH & CLEAN install, anything else is false-wisdom and very dangerous.

If you had a high value Workstation with deadlines pending and money behind this would be a different story, but those guys usually have a 5-year Dell Warranty and spare parts guaranteed and thus don't have your pain.

 

 

Baseline:

 

There is no real cure and if you don't accept the fresh install you must learn it the hard way, as many others did before.

The less you know about registry, missing the tools to work on it too, and overall not too deep into Windows world you should never pull the solution you described, bound to fail !

 

my 2 cents

 

Bit

[BitMaster]

One has to admit, even with the best backup with BMR and VMware export functions would not save your activation !!! The HW changes and down the creek flows your activation.

 

The only time when such backups help regarding DCS is when you have logical, win-errors, and can noodle the backup back to the original Hardware, that will save your activation, anything else voids it.

 

Not very consumer friendly but that is how DCS's Copy Protection works.