Having to replace a board that wouldnt post, what do i do with windows?

[Rhyseee]

just wondering , i cant get onto the drive to delete motherboard drivers so i would presume using a new board with my old OS with mobo settings will be bad?

im replacing asus maximus hero 8 with asus 1707 pro gaming....

thanks..

 

[ss202sl]

It may boot to windows, but most likely you'll need to [strike]reload[/strike] reinstall Windows.

 

[velocityg4]

All the major chips necessary for booting are the same. Odds are it will just boot, perhaps with a little extra setup time the first boot. All I can think that would really effect it is if you switched UEFI to/from Legacy or AHCI to/from RAID.

 

[atljsf]

the driver folder is just a folder with the drivers before they are installed on the pc, the folder is not used after you install then into windows folders and windows registry uses the installed drivers

if you plan to migrate a hard disk with a install in it, before doing the swithc i would uninstall sound card drivers, chipset drivers, network drivers and turn pc off

do the mainboard migration and if windows is cooperative and oots with the new mainboard, install new drivers for the components that windows doesn't install by itself

the install drivers folder you mention, wipe them, those folders are just useless now that you are going to change mainboard

 

[captaincharisma]

its hard to say if it will bootup or not. i replaced a gigabyte mobo a month ago with an asus board and and it booted up my outdated version of windows 10. mind you i did a clean install after backing some stuff up to avoid running into problems

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Considering what a pain a fresh Windows install can be, I would try the existing installation first and see how it goes.

May need a couple of reboots to get it to settle down, so don't give up after the first boot if it hangs somewhere.

 

[atljsf]

a pain a fresh windows install is?

are we talking about windows 10?

what pain?

the annoyance of reisntall all the things you need after installing it perhaps, the win10 install proces takes around 50 minutes more or less, that is not a pain