Wlll a 990X Require a updated Bios from 970A

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So i took advantage of a black friday sale and upgraded from a 6300/ Msi 970A-G46 motherboard to a FX8320/Asus M5A99X Evo RV 2.0 and was wondering will i have to do anything drastic to get the pc running or is the bios version the same as the 970A.
 
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mmm... no... you're mistaking something. bios has nothing to do with windows.

Bios is like the onboard control software for the motherboard... this is applied BEFORE windows even is loaded. So swapping motherboards or adding SSDs in a RAID0 settup has nothing (particularly) to do with the BIOS. when you change a motherboard the new motherboard will come with a new bios. the bios is part of the motherboard... not part of the operating system (windows). The motherboard will be able to detect any new hard drive you connect and even will be able to set up that RAID 0 set up for you; all before windows even loads. windows TALKS to the motherboard to lean what's connected in your system, and it needs "drivers" to be able to use that...
mmm... you'll probably be able to load into windows just fine... the issues that come with motherboard changes are often due to the southbridge drivers... as they control the hard drives and the like... Both boards have the same southbridge chipset... so in theory there should be no issues. That said if you were running a RAID setup, chances are the RAID control is different on the MSI board and windows will not load.

assuming no RAID... it will likely be a mostly "no issue" install... you might need to load into safemode to get the proper drivers installed but it should get you that far atleast.
 

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So when i buy a ssd a bios update will be required as i will be putting that in raid 0?

 

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OK i think i know what you mean i won't need to update the bios just the drivers for raid but i was running raid then it would be a issue correct me if i am wrong.



 
mmm... no... you're mistaking something. bios has nothing to do with windows.

Bios is like the onboard control software for the motherboard... this is applied BEFORE windows even is loaded. So swapping motherboards or adding SSDs in a RAID0 settup has nothing (particularly) to do with the BIOS. when you change a motherboard the new motherboard will come with a new bios. the bios is part of the motherboard... not part of the operating system (windows). The motherboard will be able to detect any new hard drive you connect and even will be able to set up that RAID 0 set up for you; all before windows even loads. windows TALKS to the motherboard to lean what's connected in your system, and it needs "drivers" to be able to use that hardware. When you add new hardware the motherboard will detect and identify it, then windows when it loads will talk to the motherboard's bios, get the identification information from the motherboard and then apply a compatable driver to allow you to use that new hardware in windows.

the reason there might be difficulties going from one motherboard to another is because windows might not have the proper drivers for some of the hardware on the new motherboard... and might crash your system before you can fix that. that's why i said you should be alright because you have the same southbridge on both boards, so windows probably will be able to actually load up, allowing you to fix whatever hardware issues you might develop going to a new motherboard.

when you set up the RAID0 set up windows will likely be able to work with it because by that point in time you'll have loaded all the proper chipset drivers for your new motherboard.
 
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Thanks that makes perfect sense you saved me alot of headaches thanks i really appreciate it.