I had an AMD CPU in my PC then after it broke i got a Intel CPU with a different motherboard but all the other parts GPU storage i am still using and i have noticed that I have AMD drivers instead of Intel drivers. What should I do to remove the AMD drivers and install the Intel drivers. Do I have to delete everything off of my PC? Thanks for your help.
AMD to Intel
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- Apr 29, 2006
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Wait! Is everything working now? Do you have any issues? You probably just have left over folders on your drive. Windows isn't using them. If you have an AMD GPU, it might be related to that. If you've already made the change and everything is working fine, just ignore the AMD folders. It's not harming anything.
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If you want to do it right, yes. Back up everything that you cannot afford to lose first to another drive or disc and then do the reinstall. Also, you may need to reinstall drivers (maybe) for your devices but this isn't a guarantee.
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A clean install is recommended, but if everything is working well now, there's no harm if AMD Drivers are still present. If you do start running into issues, however, a clean install of Windows would be my first step.
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If you want to do it right, yes. Back up everything that you cannot afford to lose first to another drive or disc and then do the reinstall. Also, you may need to reinstall drivers (maybe) for your devices but this isn't a guarantee.[/quotemsg]
So I have to move everything to a different drive such as steam and some games have to be moved over to my hard drive, then I have to clean my SSD of all files and then reinstall Windows and all my drivers?
So I have to move everything to a different drive such as steam and some games have to be moved over to my hard drive, then I have to clean my SSD of all files and then reinstall Windows and all my drivers?
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Yes. What you've stated would be ideal; however, if you don't want to go through all that, you may have very little to do outside of repairing Windows seeing that you're going from one manufacturer to another. Windows isn't likely to just boot right up as if nothing ever changed.
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Again, if everything is fine there is no need. It won't harm anything to reload windows, but it's not bad to just keep using it. In the way olden days of windows it wouldn't even boot. From win7 on windows became much better at working after big changes like this. Personally I'd just keep using it and ignore/delete the folder.
AMD drivers for what?
If you now have an Intel cpu and an Nvidia GPU, then you are running generic drivers approved by Microsoft, if you haven't installed them yourself. AMD drivers are just left over from your prior setup, and are not being used.
I recommend you go to Nvidia.com to get the latest drivers for your GTX 1050 Ti - to get the most out of your graphics card. I don't think you have to do anything with your Intel processor, but you might check to see if your Intel based motherboard needs a BIOS update. Sometimes they do.
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