If I'm buying a new 860k CPU and a new Asus motherboard from a ecs motherboard will I need to reinstall windows 7?
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Forever Oleg
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Changing a motherboard and a CPU is a huge hardware change. It is recommended if not mandatory that you reinstall Windows.
memory_leak
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Actually, in the past, Windows had no problem to boot into totally different hardware configuration, as long as your windows was not "locked" to a certain configuration so to say. I think they probe for hardware at startup and load what is needed. My advice is to connect everything and try. If it does not boot it is just to reinstall.
Tradesman1
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+1 Have done it over a hundred times, Make sure your Win7 is up to date, if it transition itself (can take a little while (generally 10 minutes or less), then run a good registry cleaner (Wise has a free version), update the latest mobo drivers from the manufacturers website (those on the CD are often out of date) and will prob have to reactivate Win
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