MB Upgrade in W7

[Gone_Away]

Folks,
 
Having just completed my MB upgrade I thought I'd describe my experience to you..
 
Expecting the absolute worst, I backed up most game profiles, docs and photo's of benny and squonk in matching outfits.
 
Installed new MB, reset CMOS, flicked the switch.
 
I had floppy with Raid driver in hand as I expected to need it for some reason as I was running Raid 0 on my old rig.
 
Had a few problems getting the keyboard to respond in Bios as I've described earlier. Once I was through that, I set the Bios and turned the raid on and rebooted.
 
To my surprise and delight, the Raid driver installed when the O/S was installed on my old MB was picked up on the new Raid device and low and behold, windows started up..
 
I had all the drivers required to hand and ready to install from a USB stick. Again to my surprise and delight, W7 did the job for me. It picked up on the change, went through a driver install process that lasted about 20 min or so as it picked up all of the new devices and installed latest drivers for the lot. I looked at the device manager later and only my crackberry was missing a driver!
 
System has been running almost perfectly with the only CTD coming from BC2 but I'm taking that as unrelated..
 
Now, the only concern and thus question I have is about the Raid driver. The O/S was installed under a Gigabyte Raid driver and the new MB is a DFI Lanparty (some of you might recall my love of my last Lanparty Board). Is it a case of it's not broken.. or should I really be concerned and trying to fix it. The only fix I can think of would be a complete reinstall.
 
The raid driver issue aside, I was impressed at W7's ability to handle the change so smoothly. I would always recommend a backup before attempting something like this but if you do need to swap out your MB under W7.. I say Go For It..
 
NF seal of approval.. :yahoo:

[smilodon]

It took 25 years but W7 really is a sweet OS. I'd wait for a proper RAID geek to respond but I thought those drivers were pretty generic. In the absence of any proper advice I'd go down the "If it ain't broke ..." route.

[Blunt]

I plan to upgrade from xp pro to W7 shortly.
I'm hopeful it will be as smooth as your experience.
Encouraging report.
The thought of you with a picture of B&S and a floppy in your hand is going to take a lot of unimagining:narnar:

[acidrainy]

Now, the only concern and thus question I have is about the Raid driver. The O/S was installed under a Gigabyte Raid driver and the new MB is a DFI Lanparty (some of you might recall my love of my last Lanparty Board). Is it a case of it's not broken.. or should I really be concerned and trying to fix it. The only fix I can think of would be a complete reinstall.

Your raid controller will be the same in both boards (or at the very least compatible.)  The fact that it booted and did not force you to remake your RAID profile is alone enough to ease your concern; no need to change anything.

[kregoron]

As previously stated, the boards probable utilize the same chip, and the generic driver should do just fine..
If the raid array has been stable so far, and no issues have occured. Id stick with it for now, as the wise smilodon states, if it aint broke..