On 27/06/2019 14:09, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 27/06/2019 13:42, Michael Chare wrote:
On 26/06/2019 19:46, dennis@home wrote:
JFI.

Bought a s/h motherboard for my broken Yoga S1 (i5 cpu) on Monday.


Swapped it today when it arrived in the post.

I had used the hard drive in something else so I swapped the HD out
of a machine running win 10 on a really slow AMD A4.

It booted first time and then installed a few drivers.

Then I reset it in the settings to get a clean machine and it
downloaded a new version of windows and installed it, took about an
hour including downloading the image.

Then I upgraded from home to pro, which it did free and activated
itself.

Then I got it to install the latest version that isn't on automatic
roll out ATM.

That took longer, about 2 hrs.

So in summary it appears you can change from AMD to Intel without
doing anything special by swapping disks.

Swapping the MB and the disk didn't require manual activation.

YMMV.

Assuming it carries on working its well worth the £90 to fix as its
touch screen, wacom digitizer, i5, 8G RAM.

I would have fixed it a couple of years ago but the MB was £400+.


I thought W10 was linked to the motherboard. My guess is that the 2nd
hand motherboard was previously used with W10 and that is why W10 now
works.


I think it is probably linked to the drive BUT if te motherboard has
different hardewaree it may have a hiccup on first boot and require you
to install new drivers

I deleted the original copy of W10 on my HP laptop together with various
bits or rubbish. I then installed a new copy of W10 which activated
without my doing anything in the ways of entering keys etc.

It does now appear that Microsoft do allow you to change the mobo by
linking your digital licence key to your Microsoft account.


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Michael Chare