SWITCHED?

Unless you know of specific differences between the 2 motherboards (chipset, CPU, integrated periphials) there is nothing to look for.

Your best bet would be to go through the original documentation that came with the PC, and compare what you have with what you are suppossed to have.

There is a small utility that you can get from www.belarc.com to create a "profile" of your PC.
This way, you can save, or print out the results so that you have a record of the system configuration.

It takes a couple of hours to change out a motherboard, and get the PC to function "normally" again.

Chas

Too Late this time but could have gone to start -> program -> accessories -> system tools -> system information and printed a copy of the entire computer system. Any and ALL changes would be easily recognized when compared to the current hardware list.

If this was an off the shelf system and registered that company may have a copy of the setup when registered.

BTW - The restore disk requested from the OEM seems to have this information, along with what your original setup was when you registered.

There is a small chance that if you boot into safe mode, you may see some duplicate entries in the hardware manager. This will only be evident if the chipset changed. Meaning if the Asus had an intel 815 chipset and the Azza had an intel 815 chipset you would not see many differences. The first place I would look is in the hard disk controllers. If you have two controllers listed (six total entries) the board was probably swithched at some point. This is not foolproof however, so take it for what it is. Some computers are imaged with a generic operating system and may reflect devices in safe mode that were never present inyour original machine. Do you have any software with your computer? If you have a disk with drivers from the mobo you can at least see what was originally there.

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