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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

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Upgrading motherboard/CPU

I have no particular worries about the upgrade itself, and I'll generally be keeping the same architecture (Phenom 965 to be replaced with a Ryzen 7 2700). My biggest worry is maintaining my current, BIOS boot to be replaced with UEFI. Despite searching, I can't find a foolproof guide.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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WorMzy

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Re: Upgrading motherboard/CPU

A fool-proof guide to what? Setting up a UEFI boot loader? There are numerous on the wiki, take your pick.

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Buddlespit

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From: Chesapeake, Va.

Registered: 2014-02-07

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Re: Upgrading motherboard/CPU

Your motherboard will most likely have some kind of compatibility mode to allow you to boot drives that use the MBR instead of an ESP (EFI System Partition). You will be able to continue mimicking a bios for your boot drive until you convert it into an ESP.

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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

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Re: Upgrading motherboard/CPU

Thank you both. To WorMzy, I was clearly searching the wrong term, and to Buddlespit, that's exactly what I want to hear. It means I can transplant, and then reconfigure from a live system.

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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,360

Re: Upgrading motherboard/CPU

Just an update, whilst still on BIOS Boot, the upgrade has gone well and, despite 6 hours repairing boot after converting to GPT, the actual build was pretty uneventful. Booting with no real issues.

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