Core 2 Duo to i7 - Windows 7 reinstall?

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Hi all, do I have to reinstall windows again? I'm upgrading the motherboard, memory and cpu? or can I just leave the ssd as is?

The chipset of the current motherboard is Intel X48 if that makes a difference.

OS = Windows 7 Home Premium Retail.

Also, I am aware that I will at least have to reactivate it and I'm cool with that.

Thanks,
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edit: ignore. i missed the bit about motherboard upgrade. should have been obvious due to the fact it was c2d>i7 in thread title. :o
 
Good question and useful for education of everybody.

On XP an integral part of the installation was selection of the correct HAL so that Windows could properly communicate with the underlying hardware. I have no idea how the Vista/7 kernel is set up though.
 
Hi personally I would always reinstall when a motherboard change happens. However I just moved from q6700 to i7860 with motherbaord change (obviously). I wanted to bench the 860 and test the overclock before I did a reinstall, windows 7 installed all the new drivers for the new board no problem, only had to restart once and everything was fine.
 
As a general rule of thumb, whenever you change chipsets (not motherboards) you will nearly always need to reinstall windows. Whether windows recognises the new chipset or not, I'd still do a fresh install just to be safe.
 
nikebee said:
As a general rule of thumb, whenever you change chipsets (not motherboards) you will nearly always need to reinstall windows. Whether windows recognises the new chipset or not, I'd still do a fresh install just to be safe.
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Ok. Does this count in this situation though, as it's still an Intel chipset?
 
The manufacturer of the chipset hasn't changed, but it is a different chipset... I think it's always best to start from scratch when changing so much hardware.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys, will wipe the SSD soon.

Thought you might be interested though that I'm temporarily running my old windows install with the i7 stuff and it's running fine. Probably best to wipe it at some stage, but everything appears to work apart from my scanner, which didn't work before. It needs reactivation ofc, but I'll do that after I wipe it (which will be tomorrow).
 
That was one of my major gripes with XP, having to repair/reinstall after a motherboard upgrade.
 
Using Vista I didnt do a clean install when I went from C2D to i7.
Everything works fine, after booting just chuck the new MB CD & install new chipset drivers!

No problems at all!
 
no_1_dave said:
Using Vista I didnt do a clean install when I went from C2D to i7.
Everything works fine, after booting just chuck the new MB CD & install new chipset drivers!

No problems at all!
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I think I will wipe mine just to make sure, but I'm sure if I didn't wipe it, it would still run fine. It doesn't seem to be as necessary with Vista and 7 as it would have been with XP and older operating systems.
 
Historically I have always reinstalled Windows when changing motherboard.

However, I recently went from S775 (Nforce 650i Ultra) to S1156 (P55) and just booted up Vista64 with no problem.

My advice is try it and then reinstall Windows if you run into difficulties.
 
I have plugged in an ancient HD with an OS on it and booted into windows.

it wont like it, it took a while to configure all the new devices but it will work

I would definitely reinstall the OS saying that though, for the little time it takes
 
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