CPU Upgrade (Reinstall needed?)

[Blackhawk47]

so i havent actually ever upgraded a cpu before on the same motherboard. always just kept the same one.

anywho thinking of upgrading to something a bit more beefy than my e4400. say if i got a quad or a e6600 . would i need a reinstall or should it work no problems without a reinstall. so does it have any issues if you just put in like you do with ram?

 

[setter]

when i changed from an e6600 to a quad, all i done was load defaults in the bios then removed the old chip and put the new one in.

 

[reflux]

You shouldn't need to reinstall Windows. Last time I changed my CPU, the BIOS reset my overclock and I set what I wanted after that. Easy peasy.

 

[Dutch Guy]

No way a reinstall is needed, I changed my Mobo, CPU and Memory last week and all it needed was a Windows repair and everything works again.

 

[Flukester]

cpu, no (though going to multi CPU from single core you may have to force windows in multi processor mode from device mangler)....but motherboard changes certainly can cause windows to fail (because of differences in hard disk controller especially when moving to different chipset)

easy way to get round this is either move hard disk first to a pci HD controller card then swap motherboard, or repair... I prefer the former though as 100% guarantees windows runs.

- put pci controller in sys
- install drivers
- move HD to card and check sys boots
- change mobo and boot on controller card
- install all drivers
- move HD back to onboard sata or whatever
- remove pci card from sys

I usually always use the controller card trick just to play safe, as the extra 5 mins work far outweighs the risk of 'killing' a important machine at work.