Hello. So I had an Asus Crosshair IV motherboard with an AMD FX-8350 CPU that I wanted an upgrade on. The motherboard was starting to show its age. Important to note is I had ‘Win7 64 Professional’ installed on my 250gb SSD. I bought a ‘new to me’ Maximus VII Ranger board, an i5-4690K and some higher hertz RAM. So clearly making the switch from AMD to Intel. I removed all the existing components and rebuilt the PC using the new motherboard, CPU and RAM. I am reusing the my SSD hard drive, GTX 970, PSU and case etc. This is where it got a bit strange. When I booted the PC up I did not expect the current install of Windows to work, but it did. I installed all the chipset drivers, motherboard drivers, everything I could think of for the new hardware. And it all seems to work fine. I did some gaming and it all seemed happy. Windows has not given me any issues.
1). I was under the impression that your operating system was tied to your motherboard, and that an upgrade such as this would require a fresh install of windows? Or at least some form of reactivation. I have a legit copy of Windows so this should be fine.
2). The new build seems to be working just fine. However I just wonder whether not installing a fresh copy of Windows will cause me issues further down the line. Do you think a fresh install, albeit a nuisance, is the better way to go? I did remove as many AMD applications as I could but now that I think of it I did not do any driver clean up.
I was just wondering what everyone’s thoughts on that would be.
Many thanks
Gareth
1). I was under the impression that your operating system was tied to your motherboard, and that an upgrade such as this would require a fresh install of windows? Or at least some form of reactivation. I have a legit copy of Windows so this should be fine.
2). The new build seems to be working just fine. However I just wonder whether not installing a fresh copy of Windows will cause me issues further down the line. Do you think a fresh install, albeit a nuisance, is the better way to go? I did remove as many AMD applications as I could but now that I think of it I did not do any driver clean up.
I was just wondering what everyone’s thoughts on that would be.
Many thanks
Gareth
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