Reinstall windows or no ?

Lethalcube · Dec 17, 2016

Hi, i have bought an msi intel motherboard and intel cpu and plan on swapping from amd to intel. If i swap, do i need to reinstall windows 8.1 or just delete the drivers from amd and install the motherboard

ss202sl · Dec 17, 2016

It's almost always necessary to re-install the OS.

Lethalcube · Dec 17, 2016

Really? I watched some videos where all they did was uninstall old amd drivers and when they installed the new motherboard windows was working fine

4745454b · Dec 17, 2016

You're going to have "everyone" come in here and tell you you'll need to reinstall windows. But even from as far back as XP I've managed to do what you are talking about just fine. Go into the device manager and remove the drivers for anything on your board. Sound, NIC, etc. Make sure you also remove the drivers for the SATA interface, but make sure you know what mode they are in as well. (SATA vs IDE/legacy.) Do not reboot after each removal. Just tell windows you'll do that later.

Once the drivers are gone, go ahead and shut down and replace the board. Boot up into the bios and set the SATA ports to the same mode as before. Then reboot and try loading windows. Keep in mind windows is gong to be loading a lot of drivers so it will take much longer than normal to boot up. For me it's worth the shot of it working and saving you the time of reinstalling not just windows but all your programs. I've had this fail I think only twice in the ~20 times I've done this. And as I look at it you've got only 30-60min wasted if it fails. Just keep your install media handy and if it doesn't work for some reason just install from scratch. No big harm if it fails, but will save all your settings and programs if it works.

Edit: Going to keep track of "everyone". So far at 5:1. Not surprised at all.

OP, if you have that video why not just follow along and give it a try?

clarkjd · Dec 17, 2016

Lethalcube :

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Look at it this way: If you've been running the AMD version for a while, there are bound to be some junk files that you want to get rid of and clean up, as well as get rid of the AMD drivers. A clean install of Windows accomplishes this in one step, and there you go.

Admittedly, it is a personal preference, but I like to have a clean install for a new MB.

ss202sl · Dec 17, 2016

2 possibilities.
1. move the hard drive like it is, and spend a few days fixing little issues and maybe still have a system that is not completely stable..
2, just reload the OS, drivers and applications in a few hours and move on with a stable system.

geofelt · Dec 17, 2016

If you can boot with your current windows, then all you need to do is to install the drivers that come with your new motherboard cd.
No need to delete old drivers.

The catch is that your current windows may not have the drivers necessary to boot.
With windows 7 a change from amd to Intel always failed when I tried it.
Possibly, not deleting the amd drivers was the cause.

I think 8.1 and 10 are much better at that sort of compatibility.

If you have not yet done so, this would be a good time to change to a ssd.
Clone your windows c drive to a ssd and do all your work on the new ssd.
Samsung ssd migration app is very good for this.

If anything should go wrong, you will have a known good backup to try again.

shaqblogs2011 · Dec 17, 2016

I have just one thing to say, Good luck with that!

Lethalcube · Dec 17, 2016

Thanks to everyone who posted tips and what to do, but i have have one lats question. I have an oem copy of windows (i bought the pc from cybertron i know should have built it myself), does it effect me swapping boards in any way ?

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