I just want to make sure this goes as smoothly as possible. I have gotten a variety of answers from other sources. Which helped, but did not easy my nerves all that much.
I am tossing my old Motherboard for a new one. It really needed to go. If you need to know exactly what I am replacing, I am replacing just the Ram and Motherboard. Got some new Ram to go along with it. The CPU is the exact same an
i7-6700k, I made sure the new motherboard could hold it. It checked out.
In addition, I am using my old HDD, because I wanted to if possible keep as many folders as possible, and Windows 10.
A few answers I have gotten state that I would need to uninstall the Chipset Drivers, USB Drivers,Video Card Drivers, Sound Card Drivers, IDE & ATAPI Serial Controllers, then remove my motherboard and replace with the new one, and that should do. Others are similar, just sounds like removing the old motherboard drivers.
Another said this, "If the motherboard has a different chipset, but still supports the same family of processor (meaning you had an AMD processor before, and you got a replacement board that allowed you to keep your AMD processor), then the OS should boot, but would detect new hardware and want to install it. If the replacement motherboard uses a different family of processor from the one you used to have, then chances are your installation of Windows would boot to a Blue Screen of Death, as the motherboard chipset drivers that were installed and in place in the copy of Windows you already have, would be incompatible with the new motherboard and the radically different chipset drivers required. You might not even be able to boot into Safe Mode."
Aside from a complete factory reset, would you recommend just uninstall those listed drivers, and would that be all that needs to go? The big one for me is keeping Windows 10 around, if it needs to happen, I can reinstall all the files. I would just rather not.
Thanks for the help!