New Motherboard, Old drivers on boot drive

[MarcusGovan]

Hi Guys, Apologies if this question has been asked numerous times but i just want a straight answer rather than reading through numerous articles that say totally different things.

I sold my b150 Motherboard, CPU and RAM to a friend a while ago and didn't think to delete any drivers or backup any data on my boot drive...

So i bought an 8th gen i3 - h130 motherboard a few days ago and I'm concerned that something bad will happen when I turn my system on and have it boot from the old windows 10 and drivers with the new motherboard...

any suggestions as to how to not ruin anything, or get it running like a new PC?

 

Cheers, Marcus

[NelizMastr]

Windows 10 is pretty intelligent. It'll detect the hardware change and reconfigure the drivers so you can boot.

 

If you used an OEM license or did an upgrade to Windows 10, it'll be deactivated.

[Radium_Angel]

10 minutes ago, MarcusGovan said:

Hi Guys, Apologies if this question has been asked numerous times but i just want a straight answer rather than reading through numerous articles that say totally different things.

I sold my b150 Motherboard, CPU and RAM to a friend a while ago and didn't think to delete any drivers or backup any data on my boot drive...

So i bought an 8th gen i3 - h130 motherboard a few days ago and I'm concerned that something bad will happen when I turn my system on and have it boot from the old windows 10 and drivers with the new motherboard...

any suggestions as to how to not ruin anything, or get it running like a new PC?

 

Cheers, Marcus

The only driver you should remove once the system boots up, is the video card driver, if you switched cards.

[demonix00]

Windows 10 (and in fact anything windows 8 and above) is really robust when it comes to hardware changes as it'll detect all the changes during the first boot up and go about installing the correct drivers if necessary.