New Drivers

[Blasty Blosty]

This weekend I will upgrading my PC from a Ryzen 5 2600x on an A320 motherboard to a Ryzen 5 7600x on a B650 motherboard. Do I have to worry about uninstalling the old chipset (and other a320/mobo) drivers? Or will Windows do all that for me? I am not very knowledgeable on this subject so I though it would be best to ask. Thanks.

[filpo]

1 minute ago, TheProGamer said:

This weekend I will upgrading my PC from a Ryzen 5 2600x on an A320 motherboard to a Ryzen 5 7600x on a B650 motherboard. Do I have to worry about uninstalling the old chipset (and other a320/mobo) drivers? Or will Windows do all that for me? I am not very knowledgeable on this subject so I though it would be best to ask. Thanks.

no need to worry. Windows will do it. But I'd reinstall windows on your boot drive since you're moving to a new platform

[Blasty Blosty]

2 minutes ago, filpo said:

no need to worry. Windows will do it. But I'd reinstall windows on your boot drive since you're moving to a new platform

Perfect, thanks for clearing that up.

 

I have a load of games installed on my boot drive (sorry I know that's a sin), can I reinstall windows while keeping all my data? Or would your suggestion only have a benefit with a complete reinstall?

[filpo]

1 minute ago, TheProGamer said:

Perfect, thanks for clearing that up.

 

I have a load of games installed on my boot drive (sorry I know that's a sin), can I reinstall windows while keeping all my data? Or would your suggestion only have a benefit with a complete reinstall?

you don't HAVE to reinstall windows. I would definitely do that if you were moving from AMD to intel but I think you could get away with it. If you're not seeing the right CPU performance you should be getting then reinstall windows

 

6 minutes ago, TheProGamer said:

can I reinstall windows while keeping all my data?

i don't think there's a way to keep all your data and reinstall windows

[Blasty Blosty]

1 minute ago, filpo said:

If you're not seeing the right CPU performance you should be getting then reinstall windows

Yeah that makes sense, thanks

 

1 minute ago, filpo said:

i don't think there's a way to keep all your data and reinstall windows

As expected, guess I could try and make space on my other drives if I have to

[freeagent]

I would at least try running it first. 

[Blasty Blosty]

2 minutes ago, freeagent said:

I would at least try running it first. 

Yeah I will do, I'll run some benchmarks to see if my system is running as it should

[TetraSky]

While I would also advocate for a clean install of Windows, to rule out possible issues in the future...

You could also do what you thought to do and uninstall the AMD chipset drivers before upgrading. Windows is pretty good at figuring out a platform change these days (it might not be Activated anymore, tho'). Uninstalling the chipset drivers beforehand will at least help a lot to make the change smoother.

 

If the motherboard supports BIOS flashback without a CPU, I would highly recommend checking how to do it. Then download the bios for it and place it on a flash drive ready to go for the flashback BEFORE doing the swap. Never know if the CPU will be supported out of the box by the motherboard these days. You don't want to have to put back all your other parts just to get the files.

[Blasty Blosty]

6 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

While I would also advocate for a clean install of Windows, to rule out possible issues in the future...

You could also do what you thought to do and uninstall the AMD chipset drivers before upgrading. Windows is pretty good at figuring out a platform change these days (it might not be Activated anymore, tho'). Uninstalling the chipset drivers beforehand will at least help a lot to make the change smoother.

 

If the motherboard supports BIOS flashback without a CPU, I would highly recommend checking how to do it. Then download the bios for it and place it on a flash drive ready to go for the flashback BEFORE doing the swap. Never know if the CPU will be supported out of the box by the motherboard these days. You don't want to have to put back all your other parts just to get the files.

Yeah I will have a BIOS ready, just in case. On my mobo's support page it says it should be supported out of the box but with my luck I'd rather not find out the hard way. The one I'm getting has a flashing feature with no CPU needed so I should be good.