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All things come to an end - plan for it

In 2011 I built a PC with an i7 2600k that stood me in good stead until two weeks ago.  I had upgraded disks, memory and video cards over the years, but while upgrading my memory, I must have flexed the 9 year old mother board more than it wanted and I got an ugly sight: That is the CPU fail LED glowing to show me that the computer was dead :-( My how PC building has changed in 9 years!  Due to work commitments I couldn't take the time to build it's replacement, but the folks at MicroCenter hooked me up with a very nice AMD build.  I got it home, double checked that it would POST correctly and I was off to the races. First, I installed my drives from my old PC into the new box, turned it on and nothing.  I forgot to put the boot configuration into compatibility mode!  My old drives were created before UEFI, so I needed to turn that one.  One change and bingo! got the Windows boot screen.  A little nervious waiting while it said that it was configuring ...