wipe ssd Impending upgrade - system wipe?

[Brownhorn111]

Hey all,

So, I finally managed to scrounge up enough money to buy a new CPU, Mobo and RAM to boot, but I've run into a small fear;

when I swap out my components like that, to such a fundamental level, where my C:\\ is on my M.2 drive- will a system wipe be necessary? I hope to keep all my files, both on my C and my D drives, as I have a few video projects I want to work on.

Please advise, thanks.

 

-Brownhorn111

[Tan3l6]

Depends. I have not wiped the OS drive for last two complete platform changes - all works when the 10/11 finds necessary drivers on first boot.

Though I've been on Intel platform. Not sure if you'd need to install AMD/Intel chipset drivers beforehand when upgrading to other one, but probably not, yet not certainly.

[Monkey Dust]

I'd do a clean install whenever I was changing CPU or Mobo. It may work without, but there maybe weirdness.

[Brownhorn111]

2 hours ago, Monkey Dust said:

I'd do a clean install whenever I was changing CPU or Mobo. It may work without, but there maybe weirdness.

Yeah so...

I just replaced it all - Mobo, CPU and RAM was replaced successfully. Computer boots and all but uhh... yeah there is weirdness as you said.

The EXPO function causes the system to boot very, very slowly- where the motherboard will show the warning lights that it doesn't detect DRAM and the CPU. But if I keep the function off, PC boots normal. Also I uhh... continually tried to update the BIOS but it is to no avail every time. Flashing the bios through the bios just plainly doesn't work. I'll try to use the flash bios function but if that don't work, I might have to just bite the bullet and do a clean install...

[Brownhorn111]

33 minutes ago, Brownhorn111 said:

Yeah so...

I just replaced it all - Mobo, CPU and RAM was replaced successfully. Computer boots and all but uhh... yeah there is weirdness as you said.

The EXPO function causes the system to boot very, very slowly- where the motherboard will show the warning lights that it doesn't detect DRAM and the CPU. But if I keep the function off, PC boots normal. Also I uhh... continually tried to update the BIOS but it is to no avail every time. Flashing the bios through the bios just plainly doesn't work. I'll try to use the flash bios function but if that don't work, I might have to just bite the bullet and do a clean install...

UPDATE I managed to get the Flash to work and updated the mobo, now to see if that fixed the EXPO....