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Installing a new MotherBoard

Swiftblade131
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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!

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To be honest I upgraded from a Pentium to a X299 platform - so new CPU, new RAM, new RAM type (DDR3 to DDR4) as well as the completely incompatible chipsets.

 

No problems. Whatsoever. Windows took about 5 minites to boot - but after that It installed everthing itself. I did end up reinstalling windows, for a seperate issue, but I would still reccomend it. If anything it refreshes your PC and you don't have to loose your files if you do it correctly.

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20 minutes ago, limegorilla said:

To be honest I upgraded from a Pentium to a X299 platform - so new CPU, new RAM, new RAM type (DDR3 to DDR4) as well as the completely incompatible chipsets.

 

No problems. Whatsoever. Windows took about 5 minites to boot - but after that It installed everthing itself. I did end up reinstalling windows, for a seperate issue, but I would still reccomend it. If anything it refreshes your PC and you don't have to loose your files if you do it correctly.

Thanks for the answer!

 

That made me a whole lot more comfortable, as to whether I do remove drivers or not. It's so impressive what how different technologies can cooperate with each other.

 

Especially considering you went from DDR3 to DDR4. That's a pretty drastic difference. And considering mine is both DDR4, just new RAM, I think it will work out just fine. Thanks for the help! 

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Yeah it should be absolutely fine. I mean you might have problems with things like case lighting, USB devices and such, but if you can get all the drivers before hand that really helps. If anything plays up just straight install the driver from the website.

Bow down to me humans.

I can't help if you don't quote me. How am I supposed to know if you need my premium support? Now starting at £399.99 a year.

Also, be a sport and mark the correct answer as the correct answer. It will help pour souls in the future when they are stuck and need guidance.

"If it works, proceed to take it apart and 'make it work better.' Then cry for help when it breaks." - Me, about five minutes ago when my train of thought wandered.

Remember kids, A janky solution is still a solution.

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26 minutes ago, limegorilla said:

Yeah it should be absolutely fine. I mean you might have problems with things like case lighting, USB devices and such, but if you can get all the drivers before hand that really helps. If anything plays up just straight install the driver from the website.

Cool, I found where I can get the Drivers, guess I should get started. 

 

Thanks again for the help, really appreciate it.

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