Doubts regarding platform change

[Askingcarpet]

So, sorry if i'm making too many threads (like 3 in the past 2 weeks) but after deciding what i'm going to buy, i have a couple of questions.

After changing my cpu, motherboard and ram, is the system just gonna boot up normally? should i update the bios? Do i install drivers manually or do they update automatically? Do i need to configure anything from the bios beforehand? Anything else i should expect? Thanks in advance

[aisle9]

How drastic of a change is this? RAM can be swapped in or out with no problems caused. CPUs generally can too. Where things get hairy is the motherboard. Sometimes you can just drop a new board in and it works right away, others it refuses to work and you have to wipe the drive and reinstall Windows. I like to do drive wipes and reinstalls anyway to clean up the leftover drivers from the old board, but plenty here never do and Windows figures the drivers out for itself.

[ProjectBox153]

If you're doing a platform change, you should always do a clean install of Windows. It'll save a lot of hassle and headache. 

[Askingcarpet]

2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

If you're doing a platform change, you should always do a clean install of Windows. It'll save a lot of hassle and headache. 

Wiping the drive is a total headache. I have around a terabyte of games to download on a 3mb/s connection. I did see an option the other day that was to clean install windows without losing any of my files, which is how i actually upgraded from win7 to win10 and kept every single game/file. Btw, what would happen if i don't clean install?

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Askingcarpet said:

Btw, what would happen if i don't clean install?

Don't know. It may work fine, it may implode upon itself and fail to boot ever again, you never really know. 

[Tsuki]

2 minutes ago, Askingcarpet said:

 Btw, what would happen if i don't clean install?

drivers can get pretty messy, especially a board swap and things may not work quite right.

or nothing could go wrong.  you never know.

 

the main problem is that it may cause issues later on, that you wont be able to diagnose very easily. its generally the cause of the "weird issues" that people sometimes have that end up being fixed by a clean install.

[LHJKO]

6 minutes ago, Askingcarpet said:

Wiping the drive is a total headache. I have around a terabyte of games to download on a 3mb/s connection. I did see an option the other day that was to clean install windows without losing any of my files, which is how i actually upgraded from win7 to win10 and kept every single game/file. Btw, what would happen if i don't clean install?

partiton the drive put your games on the partition and wipe only the windows install 

[Askingcarpet]

7 minutes ago, Vernw3 said:

partiton the drive put your games on the partition and wipe only the windows install 

Again, isn't it possible to clean install without losing personal files? I remember doing just that while first installing, but i don't really know how to do it

[airdeano]

47 minutes ago, Askingcarpet said:

So, sorry if i'm making too many threads (like 3 in the past 2 weeks) but after deciding what i'm going to buy, i have a couple of questions.

1. After changing my cpu, motherboard and ram, is the system just gonna boot up normally?
2. should i update the bios?
3. Do i install drivers manually or do they update automatically?
4. Do i need to configure anything from the bios beforehand?
5. Anything else i should expect?

Thanks in advance

1. possibly, depends on what platform you have currently and what you are going to.
2. kinda big debate, but i always keep the BIOS/UEFI up-to-date with no ills.
3. use the manufacturers drivers. OS drivers can be generic and cause issues thought to be hardware rather than generic drivers.
4. usually on first boot (UEFI) using the default settings and setting drive preference is easy enough.
5. prolly, but lots of unknowns right now.

24 minutes ago, Askingcarpet said:

Again, isn't it possible to clean install without losing personal files? I remember doing just that while first installing, but i don't really know how to do it

nope, best to use another (new/use) HDD and use the original as a backup (old files). too easy to mess up the install and unforgettably format/partition old drive and lose all your written data.

[Askingcarpet]

17 hours ago, airdeano said:

1. possibly, depends on what platform you have currently and what you are going to.
2. kinda big debate, but i always keep the BIOS/UEFI up-to-date with no ills.
3. use the manufacturers drivers. OS drivers can be generic and cause issues thought to be hardware rather than generic drivers.
4. usually on first boot (UEFI) using the default settings and setting drive preference is easy enough.
5. prolly, but lots of unknowns right now.

nope, best to use another (new/use) HDD and use the original as a backup (old files). too easy to mess up the install and unforgettably format/partition old drive and lose all your written data.

I literally don't have any other hdd i could use and i would have to buy a new 2tb drive just for that which i'm definitely not doing because i can't afford to.