Swapping Motherboards

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Jaenke

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Hello i was going to a friends to swap my motherboard tomorrow, i just wanna know what drivers if any need to be uninstalled prior to installing the new motherboard.
 
If you swap motherboards its better to do a clean install. If not uninstall anything thats board related. Chipset drivers/sound/onboard video/Lan/Blah Blah Blah. If it boots you will install all the new boards drivers. If it wont boot do a repair install. But like I said its better to do a clean install. And chances are you will need to reactivate it
 
OK thanks for the advice :) clean install meaning like a formatted hard drive? so that it thinks its the first motherboard to be installed or something?
 
Jaenke said:
OK thanks for the advice :) clean install meaning like a formatted hard drive? so that it thinks its the first motherboard to be installed or something?
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Right, just boot to the OS CD, format the harddrive and let it start the install. If there is anything you need to save first back it up, a clean install will wipe the harddrive, as in a fresh OS. If you want to try it without doing a clean install. Just uninstall all the board drivers, swap it out and see if it will boot, if not do a repair install and it will save all your programs and files. But still back anything you want to save first just in case something goes wrong.
 
ok sweet thanks! my mobo has been changed before without losing stuff so hopefully it will work this time too :D if not ill take it into a PC place and pay em to do it :D
 
If you uninstall everything in device manager you might be able to get away with a mobo swap. but then you will have to deal with re-activating windows.
 
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