Changing motherboard with windows 7

[XDanger]

Whats the best way to go about this?

p5b to p5q

I have retail 7

[Rummy]

I went from a P965 to p35 and all I did was uninstall everything in device manager then shut down, swapped motherboards and booted up. Widows installed everything and I didn't even have to activate windows. You will have to install chipset and all that other stuff though. Very easy process.

[XDanger]

did it not affect your game installations/activations at all?

also uninstall everything in device manager

Can you be a little more specific?

[Rummy]

No it did not affect installations at all. I went in to device manager and uninstalled all drivers for all the hardware and all the Asus drivers then swapped mobo's.

[XDanger]

Thanks!

I uninstalled drivers but they kept creeping back in the pesky buggers

No BSOD's yet :)

[shabby]

All you have to do in uninstall the ide/sata drivers when switching mobo's http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/09/how-to-install-a-new-motherboard-without-reinstalling-windows.ars

[enoteware]

That is pretty impressive, that wasn't even an option in old versions of windows.