Installed a New motherboard...

[RyanC826]

So I recently bought an Asus Prime B250M-K with an Intel i5-7500 processor and they work fine.

However what the guy who put them in my case didn't tell me is that I had to do a system format (reset) as my AMD Radeon 380 was not running during games and I keep having to change the source on my monitor each time I start up the computer.

Though my system reset never worked and I've just seen I need to reinstall windows but my computer currently runs windows 10? so it still has it?

It's confusing do I need to buy the OS again and install it from scratch? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[RyanC826]

I'm just running the HDD.

Yeah new MB and CPU with the old HDD and OS.

I went back to the guy who done it today to ask what was up and it was only then he told me I had to format it otherwise it would be buggy as hell which it has been. Tried resetting but the system reset failed.

 

[RyanC826]

Ok, you do need to reformat/reinstall your OS, as you will carry on running into problems until the system potentially fails to boot.

Are able to do this?

Just got help from a Microsoft advisor, reinstalling windows 10.

After that will I do a system reset yeah?

 

[RyanC826]

Reinstalling windows 10 will reset the system - as long as you're overwriting the original install?

To be sure - do a quick format of your hdd before you start the install process (hope you backed up).

Yeah it's a fresh download of it so I'd imagine it should overwrite the current one.

 

[RyanC826]

Have you downloaded the windows 10 tool and creating an ISO?

If you have - when you come to install - select custom intsall, select your drive and quick format - then proceed to install. (ideally delete partitions, create a new one and quick format - but not essential).

Yeah I did,

Perfect! Thank you for the help.