New motherboard, new processor, same drives and same vga - Windows boots flawlessly

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Lukebad

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So, I just upgraded my rig. I went from a Phenom II X4 965 on a ECS A790GXM-AD3 to a i7-6700k on a Z170 Sabertooth Mark 1. Changed case as well, but that's not relevant (for now).

I booted to check the BIOS before reinstalling Windows, as doing that is usually good practice.
And to my surprise: Windows said "preparing devices..." and booted flawlessly. Faster than ever before, installed a couple of drives and blam! Here I am, posting from it.

Should I be worried?
Should I reinstall anyway?
I checked a few programs, and all say that everything is peachy. Samsung magician says my SSD is happier than ever, now having SATA3.
But I'm still worried about possible incompatibilities, driver suicides, and so on.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Lucas
 
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Chicano
You know what they say: 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'... So if it works it works... it happens some times, so leave it alone. You can check the windows Device Manager for devices with a yellow exclamation mark and if you find any, just update the driver before rebooting again, you may also want to install the motherboard drivers from the disk that came included in the motherboard box... and do this before the next reboot to prevent boot issues... another option is installing the available motherboard driver updates you can download from the motherboard manufacturer's website > motherboard product page > Support > Downloads > Drivers.
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if you have windows 10, it can do that most of the times because or it already had drivers for all that or could download them fast enough, be sure to check if it remains activated, the mainboard change should force a reactivation process on most licenses

windows 7 can do that too on some circumstances, but mostly when jumping from one intel chipset to another but is not the case here or is it?

did you changed the gpu?

i would uninstall and reinstall that driver but that is just me

if the install is old, i would reinstall to keep machine for the longest time without requiring reinstalls
 
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You know what they say: 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'... So if it works it works... it happens some times, so leave it alone. You can check the windows Device Manager for devices with a yellow exclamation mark and if you find any, just update the driver before rebooting again, you may also want to install the motherboard drivers from the disk that came included in the motherboard box... and do this before the next reboot to prevent boot issues... another option is installing the available motherboard driver updates you can download from the motherboard manufacturer's website > motherboard product page > Support > Downloads > Drivers.
 
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Lukebad

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The install is pretty recent, I reinstalled from scratch when I changed to an SSD.
The gpu is the same! I changed mobo and processor (and ram) only. Went from an AMD to an Intel.

I have no yellow exclamation marks, no drivers with any errors...
Seems like I got lucky!
I will install motherboard drivers as soon as I can. I tried to install some programs (Thermal Radar 2, and so on) but it gets stuck on 0%. Will try again tomorrow!

Thanks everyone!
 
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