From AMD to INTEL (driver clean)

rubberduck

rubberduck

rubberduck

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Hi

I just upgraded from an AMD socket 939 processor to a Quad Core intel... Just changed the motherboard and cpu, nothing else.

Anyway, upon booting in to windows and installing all the new drivers from the CD after a couple of restarts everything is running ok and windows is booting up fine and showing my 4 cores in task manager :)

Anyway. My question is do I have to run a driver cleaner to remove the old AMD drivers and if so is there a freeware one? Will the residual drivers cause a performance hit or will they just take up a small amount of HD space?

To be honest I suspected I'd have to reinstall windows but it look like I might not have to if everything run ok. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks
 
I guess the only drivers really would be the amd drivers for the CPU (if you installed them) which can be removed via add/remove programs. Then any chipset drivers, again, which should be found under add/remove programs.

You could try this. From a dos prompt enter:-

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start devmgmt.msc

Then in Device Manager, enable Show Hidden Devices and have a look in the various trees and have a look at the ghosted out entries. You can delete everything you recognize as a hardware device which is ghosted out, but leave USB devices alone. Also, don't delete anything under "Non-Plug and Play Devices." or "Sound, video and game controllers".
 
I have always formatted my hard drive and installed a fresh copy of windows when changing the motherboard/cpu.
 
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