He is using this right now:
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3
and my computer has:
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R
I actually did this very same swap when my 965P board died (*by my inept hands) and it worked fine. It's still running great actually for that matter, though I'm incredibly anal about removing old drivers and I spent a week going through the system manually with regseeker. Still running the same XP install as I really didn't want to have to reload everything again.
I didn't expect to be able to keep the OS intact, but what I did is this
(YMMV) :
1.) Removed audio and video drivers after swapping the boards.
2.) Removed the antivirus/firewall (symantec client security 9) and then ran NoNav to clear off the stuff it left behind.
3.) Ran driver cleaner (Pro and Platinum Edition) twice to finish off removing the video and audio drivers.
4.) Under Control Panel-> System Properties-> Advanced tab-> Environment Variables, I added the following under "User Variables for ....":
Code:
user variable: devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
value: 1
then rebooted the system.
5.) Under Device Manager, I enabled showing of hidden drivers (View tab-> Show Hidden Devices), and removed the old IDE/ATAPI drivers for the previous board, and under the System Devices menu I removed the ICH8/965 northbridge drivers. Cleaned out any unused/greyed out USB drivers remaining.
6.) Rebooted, then installed the Intel .inf drivers from their site.
7.) After that I reinstalled the video and audio drivers, along with the antivirus and was good to go.
My Ubuntu install wasn't repairable however, and it may have been easier just to do a reformat.