New Motherboard for my PC

I had A new harddrive put in my desktop PC.
Now it still not fix.
Now it has to have new Motherboard put in it.

My question: Will they have to have the recovery CD to get it up & running good after the Motherboard was replaced?
Any advise would help.
Thanks

E R

Was the hard disk actually bad? If so, the new disk won't have anything on it and the OS will need to be reinstalled. But if they replaced a perfectly good hard disk, then they should just put the old one back in. There may be some problems because of Windows recognizing the motherboard has changed, but it shouldn't take more than a phone call to Microsoft to fix.

I threw my old computer in the woods and bought a new one.

if the recovery cd is for a name brand ie: Dell and they replaced motherboard with the factory replacement then computer should be ready to go...if they changed MB to a different brand/type your recovery cd is worthless because it wont recognize the MB.

Unless you've had a electrical spike or something like that, a motherboard failure is pretty rare.

Who is advising you that these things have failed??

What exactly is wrong now?? What happens when you turn it on??


Howard

Throw it away, new ones are cheap.

Big difference between a recovery-CD, and a complete OS on a CD. The recovery CD is going to have info on all your old hardware settings, BIOS, etc. It will take a puke if you stick in a different motherboard.

I've had a few MB failures over the years. It's never been worth buying a new board UNLESS I needed to retain some old features like ISA slots or the older 1st generation PCI slots, old RAM slots, etc.

I just had an on-board sound chip go bad on a Dell motherboard. I could of fixed just by adding a new sound-card to over-ride it. But, the processor was slow and the Dell board was limited to only 2MB max RAM. So, I saved the two hard-drives from it and the two DVD burners, bought a new computer and added them in.

For $275, I bought a ZT Element 2140 desk-top tower machine - that came with 2 GB RAM, a 500 GB hard-drive, DVD burner, wireless networking, Athlon II X2 2553.1GHz processor, my choice of Vista or Windows 7, wireless optical mouse, keyboard, internal card reader, etc. Being able to still get the Vista OS was a big plus to me since there are many programs that Windows 7 will not run -and Vista and XP will. For $275, shipped to my door, a new MB wasn't worth even thinking about.

I know there is A lot of things that can be wrong
with my PC.I know they put A new HD in it,now after they put the new MB in it and it don t work.
Well I don t want it.
I know where the trash dump is.

Thanks to all for the good info.
I am working off my laptop.

E R