Will drivers conflict when motherboard changed?

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Hey everybody I was wondering if I changed my motherboard would my drivers conflict? I recently spoke to a microsoft answer tech about it because i was wondering if I would need a fresh install of windows if i changed my motherboard, and they said if I swap them out i would be good, but I don't know if they where also talking about the drivers. So if I just delete all of my current drivers, then install the new ones after i swap em out will that work? Thank you and ask me about any confusion with my question
 
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Also make backups of all your data files, Win is very good at transitioning, but on occasion it goes belly up and you'll have to do a fresh install. I've it it go smoothly about 95% of the time
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It's possible, but seldom has adverse effects. If you take a drive from a different mobo and install it on a new mobo - (WIN 7 and newer) win will examine the new hardware and load default drivers from it's store (make sure Win is up to date before the move), then if all goes well, I normalload the latest drivers for the new mobo (from their website, the disk that comes with the mobo is generally already out of date), next run a good registry cleaner (Wise has a good free one), then will normally have to reactivate Win
 
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sethhhh

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Thank you very much. I was kinda worried because looking online and at different youtube videos on replacing motherboards, they all said drivers would conflict. But thank you for assuring me. I use CCleaner as a registry cleaner and I have the Win key in the box i got the flash drive in
 
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