Changing motherboard with windows 7

**XDanger** · 01-30-10, 02:52 AM

Whats the best way to go about this?

p5b to p5q

I have retail 7

**Rummy** · 01-30-10, 08:30 PM

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** · 01-31-10, 03:37 AM

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

also

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Originally Posted by Rum Cooler

uninstall everything in device manager

Can you be a little more specific?

**Rummy** · 01-31-10, 04:08 AM

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** · 01-31-10, 10:37 AM

Thanks!

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

No BSOD's yet

shabby · 01-31-10, 10:55 AM

All you have to do in uninstall the ide/sata drivers when switching mobo's http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news...ng-windows.ars

enoteware · 02-11-10, 12:04 PM

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

01-30-10, 02:52 AM	#1
XDanger Whaaat? Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 5,674	Changing motherboard with windows 7 Whats the best way to go about this? p5b to p5q I have retail 7 __________________ 2500K 4.4ghz,P8P67Pro,120gb Force3, 12gb Vengeance,HD6950,TX850v2,W7HP,LaCie Blue 22" crt COMMODORE 64 Silver Label 1Mhz/128D 4Mhz(Z80)

01-30-10, 08:30 PM	#2
Rummy Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Under your bed Posts: 1,684	Re: Changing motherboard with windows 7 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.

01-31-10, 04:08 AM	#4
Rummy Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Under your bed Posts: 1,684	Re: Changing motherboard with windows 7 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.

01-31-10, 10:37 AM	#5
XDanger Whaaat? Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 5,674	Re: Changing motherboard with windows 7 Thanks! I uninstalled drivers but they kept creeping back in the pesky buggers No BSOD's yet __________________ 2500K 4.4ghz,P8P67Pro,120gb Force3, 12gb Vengeance,HD6950,TX850v2,W7HP,LaCie Blue 22" crt COMMODORE 64 Silver Label 1Mhz/128D 4Mhz(Z80)

01-31-10, 10:55 AM	#6
shabby Forcefed GXP Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,138	Re: Changing motherboard with windows 7 All you have to do in uninstall the ide/sata drivers when switching mobo's http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news...ng-windows.ars __________________ 2500k/Asus P67-Pro/8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3/X25-M/p190

02-11-10, 12:04 PM	#7
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