Motherboard Change - Any difficulties?

Hi folks

My unraid server ist running since almost three years, without any major problems.

Since 4 weeks I got some real trouble with reproduceable system crashes of my server.

During bootup of the server there then started to be a weird noise beside the cpu (AMD Sempron on motherboard Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2G with 9 harddrives (7 SATA, 2 IDE)). The problems started when the sound appeared.

After looking inside I could localize the sound: It comes from an inductor (get's really hot....). After system crash, the sound disappears.

So I figured out that the motherboard is not good anymore. I want to replace it with an asus M2N68-AM Plus.

This one also has 4 SATA connectors. So set-up should be the same as with the Gigabyte-Board.

Is there anything special to pay attention to? 

Thanks for your help!

Greetings from switzerland,

Thorsten

There is a FAQ entry for that:  How do I move my existing unRAID array to a new system?

I believe you will find it a simple process.

Thanks RobJ 

It worked like a charm!!!

Very easy to do. The short FAQ is all you need...

Thorsten