My replacement MoBo is supposed to be arriving tomorrow. Has anyone (successfully) upgraded from a 710 to the 720 and not reinstalled the OS? (I have a RAID array in the 710 and it's running Vista 32bit.)
Open your case, and make yourself a diagram of your sata cables so your sure to get them back where they were on your 710 board.
Take a few digital pics or write down your bios settings for your sata drives and raid settings. On first boot, let it go through the manufacturers post before you mess with it. That will look like this:
Then, when you alt-f to reboot, into your bios setup and set all the settings the way you listed them from you 710 bios.
esc, save and exit. Boot up, install your new network drivers, video & sound ect, and enjoy your new machine.
But be SURE to back up all your data just in case something goes wrong!!!
We backed up with Acronis True Image before we did the swap, just in case.....
no the switch was changed on the 710 to the same switch that came with the kit..not sure if the front i/o would need to be changed on a 710 to 720 upgrade..
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Posted January 3rd, 2008 22:00
Message Edited by gdwrnch3 on 01-03-2008 07:56 PM