How should I go about swapping motherboards with the same chipset (z97)?

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Hi I recently purchased an Asus ROG Maximus VII ranger motherboard as I was looking for a motherboard with SLI support as my previous mobo didn't have it. I recently purchased windows 10 and installed it onto my new Samsung 850 evo 250GB SSD about a month ago, I also have a 1TB drive for media and file storage. Do I need to backup anything before I swap, delete current motherboard drivers or re-install windows afterwards, any advice on how to swap motherboards without losing many settings would be great!

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geofelt
With the same chipset, you can probably just install the new motherboard and you should be able to boot into windows.
Then use the cd included with your motherboard to install the new drivers.
No need to unisnstall any old drivers, they are small and will not be used.

You may or may not need to reactivate windows.

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With the same chipset, you can probably just install the new motherboard and you should be able to boot into windows.
Then use the cd included with your motherboard to install the new drivers.
No need to unisnstall any old drivers, they are small and will not be used.

You may or may not need to reactivate windows.

 
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Thanks for the quick response, so just swap out the motherboards boot into windows and install the new drivers, do I need to re-configure any bios settings? :)

 
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Yeah that's what I thought thanks a bunch dude!:)
 
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if you want to just change the windows OS installed hard drive you can use this tool located in your windows : C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep

what this tool does is.. it removes all drivers, app licenses and it prepares your system as a new installation that all drivers are removed ( not assigned anymore ) this is what we use in our company basis to capture images and install on many PCs without no issues...

what you have to do it select OOBE > tick Generalize > shutdown option as "shutdow" when it the its done your PC will shut down and then remove the HDD install it in what ever PC you want. it will have all your files, other programs and everything. but not your licenses will be removed for your license security :)

hope this help. when i Built my PC i changed my laptop had disk for my new Desktop... because i had so much important files :)
 
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