Scott M wrote:

You've got backup/spare drives galore(!) so just power up the new board
on the bench with one of them and see what happens. At worse you'll have
to recreate it.

It's a while since I looked into it, but swapping an AMD and Intel CPU
used to be too much for the HAL to bear, resulting in a blue screen, if
you search you might find underhand methods of swapping to a different
HAL, but you're quite likely to break it doing that too.