Day 3 and all is well ...

[BubbySoup]

I really didn't want to have to re-install Windows 11 again - I'd only done it maybe 3 months previous, but this week I bought a new CPU on a whim, which meant new board/RAM.

So I went from AM4 -> AM5 and from Asus to MSI manufacturer wise. Removed as much of the Asus stuff as I could, software drivers etc. Uninstalled a bunch of other drivers from device manager. Shut down and swapped everything over. Have to say, so far so good. Benched it for 8 hours and have played a bunch of games for several hours at a time. No crashes, reboots or anything really. Just business as usual.

I've always done a re-install, never even bothered trying otherwise. Are we still over cautious about this or have I just been lucky?

 

[m4cc45]

Nowadays you are meant to be able to do just that, though this is dependent on what version of Windows you own. If you run an OEM version and change motherboard you could be asked to get a new key for it.

Typically, when changing motherboard and CPU, I do tend to reinstall but that's more to force me to do housekeeping and putting documents away, it's not because of blue screens it's just to get rid of legacy drivers that may be hanging around and if I do have an issue then I don't waste hours troubleshooting what could be a hardware or software issue.

If it's working fine though I'd leave it be


M.

 

[Maundie]

When I swapped from Intel a while back I just put my Win 10 nvme drive onto the new board and carried on, was absolutely fine for well over a year but then a month or 2 ago I decided to get a 2tb drive for it so did a fresh install, took around 10 minutes to install the OS, yes the patches took a while but the fact I’d got rid of all the crap built up over the years made it all worth while. I’ll just do a reinstall from now on