CPU replacement help

[TECNOW91]

I'm replacing my MOBO and CPU. I've deleted all drivers off MOBO and was wondering if I need to delete CPU drivers if there are any? Im not doing a clean wipe of the whole system as I don't have another os to install. Thanks

[Guest]

Are you switching from amd to intel or vice versa? When i switched from intel to amd i had to reinstall windows.

[Sa1tama]

So you have a system and want to get a new mobo and cpu. Correct?

[Sa1tama]

If so I suggest cleaning drivers from mobo (both CPU and GPU)

[TECNOW91]

I'm swapping my Intel 1151 for a newer 8th gen Intel 1151 cl so. I have removed all MOBO drivers and will remove GPU drivers before swap. Just didn't know about the CPU?

[TECNOW91]

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3 minutes ago, BlitzThePcSpecalist said:

Like others have said, you'll need to reinstall windows if you've swapped motherboard and CPU. I would suggest creating a bootable flash drive and booting into it to reinstall windows.

I have a notable flash drive for windows 10 and 7disk just in case but if I do it that way what do I need to do . Replace cpu/ motherboard and just switch it on with the USB in?

 

[JCMPTech]

I have done many many HDD swaps with windows 10 and they all boot fine, windows 10 probes hardware during boot in the new machine and boots fine, windows update may go crazy downloading drivers but it will be stable.. I am typing this on a Lenovo i5 laptop, the SDD and windows install came out of a Samsung AMD A8 APU laptop.

 

However, Windows 10 activation will break, and most likely you will need a new windows 10 key.  If you activated an OEM widows 10 or free windows 10 through the upgrade then the license is a digital entitlement and attached to the mobo and you may need a new key.  If you have retail version of Windows 10 they can attach the license to your mictosoft account and not your PC hardware, but it requires a long time on the phone with support, but an employee of mine swears they do it, and did it for him. 

 

I had a customer come in with a bad mobo, we swapped it out for the same model mobo, windows 10 worked fine until the creators update and then was no longer activated.  I called MS told them what happened, and they forced the activation through, they are not supposed to do that, the first tech told me he could not do that, the next one did.

 

Another thing to note is you can still get  free windows 10 using an 7 OEM key as long as it has NOT been redeemed yet.  When asked for a key during a clean install, "click I do not have a key",  pick the correct version for the corresponding key, and use the windows 7 key to activate windows 10 within windows, and it will activate with a digital entitlement key, but that key can never be used for a windows 10 redeem again, instead they Tag the hardware of your machine and will activate whenever you need to reinstall again without a key, as long as its online.  I have a dozen old core2 Dell optiplex 380s I refurbished with a new SSD and windows 10 and they all activated fine with the windows 7 keys on the COAs.

 

Also your posting on the forum, so you obviously have internet, and Microsoft does not covet windows 10 install images like they did previous versions, you can get them for free from Microsoft site:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

 

 

If your able to get windows to run on the new Mobo without a clean install (which you 100% should not need a clean install), but you get errors opening certain applications, then simply upgrade windows 10 to windows 10.  With windows 10 being modular you can take an updated windows image launch the installer and tell it to "upgrade the system to windows 10" even though the machine is running widows 10, you can keep all your programs and files but windows will be reinstalled and the registry repaired.  Many geek Squad agents I know are using this a shortcut to avoid  actually troubleshooting and just let windows installer fix the corrupt system files, or the files missing after you removed a ton of infections.  I have seen agents run the windows 10 upgrade on a system already running 10 to just fix issues with App store or Edge not loading, but it did actually fix the issue, just a lazy way to go about it.