Can i swap motherboard without needing to reinstall osx (10.4.7)

[nirvanaguy19]

Hi I have osx 10.4.8 (10.4.7 with 10.4.8 jass update) installed on an athlon 64 3000+ and gigabyte k8u motherboard (uli chipset). It works fine but disk speed is terribly slow. I am considering getting a cheap nforce 3 (socket 754) motherboard and swapping it. Can i just swap it out or is it recommended to do a fresh install. By the way following is motherboard i am thinking of getting. Anyone used this board, and has gotten both sound and network working.

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

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Specifications:

 

Model

# Brand: ECS

# Model: NFORCE3-A

 

 

Supported CPU

# CPU Socket Type: Socket 754

# CPU Type: Athlon 64/Sempron

# FSB:

 

 

Chipsets

# North Bridge: NVIDIA nForce3 250

 

 

# Memory

# Number of DDR Slots: 2x 184pin DDR

# DDR Standard: DDR 400 (PC 3200)

# Maximum Memory Supported: 2GB

 

 

Expansion Slots

# AGP Slots: 1x AGP 8X/4X

# PCI Slots: 5

 

 

Storage Devices

# PATA: 2 x ATA 133 up to 4 Devices

# Additional PATA RAID: NV RAID 0/1/0+1 JBOD

# SATA: 2 x SATA 150

# SATA RAID: NV RAID 0/1/0+1 JBOD

 

 

Onboard Audio

# Audio Chipset: Realtek ALC655

# Audio Channels: 6 Channels

 

 

Onboard LAN

# LAN Chipset: 10/100mbps

# LAN Speed: 10/100mbps

# Max LAN Speed:

 

 

Rear Panel Ports

# PS/2: 2

# COM: 1

# LPT: 1

# USB: 4

# Audio Ports: 3 jacks

 

 

Onboard USB

# Onboard USB Connectors: 4x USB2.0 (2x headers)

 

v Physical Spec

# Form Factor: ATX

# Dimensions: 11.6" x 8.0"

[nirvanaguy19]

somebody?

[dark4181]

if it would be the same mobo, then yes probably... but if the hardware is different (chipset, processor, cache, ram, etc...) then probably not

[elviejo]

Yes, you can, Mac OS X is not hardware tied as Windows, problably you need to reinstall some kexts and reset your network, but is going to work.

[aberracus]

i have changed alot of mobos with and without reinstalling, as elviejo says osx isnt tied to your hardware, its not like the sucking windows, the worst that can happen is not recognizing your kext hackes because the new hardware is diferent so is going back to hacking them again.

 

really mas sabe el viejo por viejo que por sabio

[dark4181]

lol, i hate being stuck in the windows world

 

sooon.... soon