Rebuild

Dawelio

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Hey guys,

So I have a PC that I will be rebuilding very soon. It's an ATX system that will go into an mITX system.

Now my quite dumb question for you guys are this... since my PC works now, and all I will really change are the RAM sticks and the motherboard.
The rest will be going from my ATX to the ITX system.

Now, would/could it be a good idea to pop in the new ram sticks in my current system to see if they work and aren't faulty?...
So if they work etc and I put the ITX system togheter and it won't boot... it "can" most likely be the motherboard yes?, since all other components have been tested and work.

Also, since everything is stock... it should work "out of the box" yes?...

Hope you guys followed this a bit lol explanation.

Thanks!
 
Exactly how you wrote. If you have the opportunity, see if the RAM works now.
You haven't given any specs but I assume you checked that everything is compatible with the new mobo.
 
Exactly how you wrote. If you have the opportunity, see if the RAM works now.
You haven't given any specs but I assume you checked that everything is compatible with the new mobo.

Thanks for the reply!

And yes, as far as I'm aware... it's compatible. The specs on the RAM and the Motherboard isn't that well written out, as far as I learned from my first time building this PC, which was 2 years ago and back then I knew exactly everything that I needed to know. Let's just say that I've lost some over the years :/...

It is the Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB 1600MHz, 2x8GB on an ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe motherboard.
Using an i7 2600K 3.4GHz, Corsair H100i, Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB, Silverstone 650W Short PSU with 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs.

A question though... let's say that the RAM isn't exactly as specs on my current motherboard, can they then fry the motherboard or the other way around?... or will it be "okay", just not boot?...

Thanks again!
 
A question though... let's say that the RAM isn't exactly as specs on my current motherboard, can they then fry the motherboard or the other way around?... or will it be "okay", just not boot?...

From the specs i saw on the net, this motherboard is built for DDR3 and I haven't heard of RAM sticks frying a motherboard.
 
Thanks for the reply!

A question though... let's say that the RAM isn't exactly as specs on my current motherboard, can they then fry the motherboard or the other way around?... or will it be "okay", just not boot?...

Thanks again!

If there is an issue it won't boot. It won't burn anything.
 
I musy be overtired, since I don't really get what you mean?... do you mean that I didn't specify installing an OS, you mentioned it or what? :P

Thanks everyone once again! :)

You'll need to reinstall windows when you change motherboards.
 
I wouldn't say need, but yeah good idea.

JR

True that, as when I started it up yesterday... it booted into Windows with "Build...". So yeah, pretty much need to reinstall Windows.
As activating didn't work, probably because a new motherboard.
 
Windows serials are locked to your motherboard, so yeah a reinstall is necessary.

I'll reply to your PMs in a bit! Just got home from the hospital (for the second time) :)
 
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