Easy way to change mobo drivers

fullspizz · 6 Jan 2009 at 19:26

Righty ho,
Is there an easy way to do this:-
I'm thinking of changing motherboard from a Nvidia 610i chipset to an Intel P965 chipset.
I know from yrs ago that this usually meant a full re-install, is there any way around this now?

Regards

khemist · 6 Jan 2009 at 21:29

I went from p35 to p45 without doing a reinstall and it's been running perfect since but it's not really as big a jump as you are making.

deuse · 6 Jan 2009 at 21:36

I would uninstall all the drivers I could on the NV mobo
you could use drivercleaner to do this in safe mode.

Then re-install the new drivers.
a good place for intel drivers are here

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20chipset.htm

The P35 and P45 use the same installer from intel so no problems there.

fullspizz · 6 Jan 2009 at 21:40

ok, cheers fellas. Not as bad as I anticipated then.

cuke2u · 7 Jan 2009 at 20:27

Hi, a repair of the OS will work just fine by booting to the CD...
Chris

fullspizz · 23 Jan 2009 at 08:32

Update:-
Did this and it was pretty easy.
Uninstalled eveything Nvidia before changing anything.
Turned off and swapped out mobo and parts.
Plugged everything back on and powered back up. Machine re-booted just prior to entering Vista and then booted as far as the repair screen.
Did a repair, rebooted and Vista loaded, my "old files" were put into a folder.
Have stress tested the pc and it appears to be fine.
Cheers for the help.

Meaker · 23 Jan 2009 at 13:50

God I remember going from VIA to NVidia, managed to corrupt my entire HDD. I am surprised you had to repair :s/