Why i have to reinstall the driver if i change the slot?

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Night_shadow

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Everytime i change the audio card from a PCI slot to another, when i start the windows it appears "Found new hardware" and i have to reinstall the driver. Why? Does Windows recognizes it as another device if the IRQ changes, or what? Why does it messes up with the driver so i have to reinstall it, if i make those changes to the same hardware? It doesn't have the driver anymore in it's registers, or what? I don't get it, it's absurd!
Thank you so much for your time!
 
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That isn't really much of a problem now that you've elaborated. you're just going to have to reinstall the drivers, the reason being that it will register it as a different device because you changed its address when you changed the slot.
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Jamie Murphy

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I'm guessing your talking about a GPU? If so; no drivers should still be compatible. Why would you want to change it anyway? Sometimes other pcie slots are x8 instead of x16 so you may see a performance decrease.
 
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Jamie Murphy

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That isn't really much of a problem now that you've elaborated. you're just going to have to reinstall the drivers, the reason being that it will register it as a different device because you changed its address when you changed the slot.
 
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