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JDubstep

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- upgrading motherboards from a Maximus VIII Hero to a Maximus IX Hero
- had issues with a Z170 BIOS (flashed to support Kaby Lake) running an i7 7700k
- decided to grab a Z270 chipset instead
- don't want to have to reinstall Windows for the new motherboard

Is there another course of action to uninstall all the drivers from the previous motherboard? If so, how would you locate every single one? How would YOU personally attack this issue, disregarding my proposed COA?

In the past, I've just gifted the whole computer and started anew and thus never faced such a conundrum. Thanks for your expedient replies.
 
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Sorry, the cleanest and most error proof method would be to reinstall windows. The second method, is to just go ahead and use your installation of windows and update drivers. Depending on the differences in the mobo's, you might get lucky and just some need to be updated. Go to the Asus site and compare the drivers for the two mobos. If your PC has strange behavior, you might have to do a windows reinstall.
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Sorry, the cleanest and most error proof method would be to reinstall windows. The second method, is to just go ahead and use your installation of windows and update drivers. Depending on the differences in the mobo's, you might get lucky and just some need to be updated. Go to the Asus site and compare the drivers for the two mobos. If your PC has strange behavior, you might have to do a windows reinstall.
 
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Do a windows complete reainstall. As Scottray says, is the cleanest and most error proof way to do it

If you replace the mother, windows would automatically detect the hadware driver and try to replace them with the correct ones, but you can bet that you would have to reinstall some of them manually. And you can have problems anyway in the future.

I dont't know wich OS are you installing, but in any case (albeit W10 gives the basic drivers for most of thing now and with any OS the time of the installation itself is not that long) if you have a good internet connection to download the drivers is a no brainer to prevent problems by just a reinstall, without taking in to account that a clean install is better for the sysmtem anyway)
 
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Thank you all for the input. As tedious as it was, I went with the clean install. Just seems like a pain in the arse. You can run DDU to get rid of GPU drivers prior to installing a new one, but there isn't anything for motherboard drivers? :/ Thanks again.
 
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No mate, yo can't uninstall the drivers of the mother, because you're using it.The GPU is diferent because if you unistall it your're using windows default driver. And as long you don't have too much stuff to buck up, is generally quick if you plan ahead, remember to download previusly (just in case your are only using LAN cable) the Ethernet driver before the format
 
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It may be a pain, but you need to keep in mind the actual complexity of a modern PC. At the mobo level, there's the BIOS/firmware that keeps track of what other hardware is connected to the mobo and how all the chips on the mobo are to communicate. Next, up are the drivers. This is the software that communicates between the hardware and the operating system. Next is the OS that lets a human being interact with the hardware. Last in the stack are applications that lets you actually do productive things on the PC, like play games or surf the web. So, it's pretty amazing now, that windows has enough redundancy and built in drivers to allow a PC even to boot up if you change out a mobo.
 
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