Installing new Motherboard/cpu/ram

xMagition

xMagition

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Hey guys,

Pretty straight forward, These will be going into my current pc BUT, I have read of problems when the original win 7 install worked with a diff motherboard. Will have to do a clean install, or do i have to change boot up priority to cd/dvd and do a startup repair?

Cheers
James
 
Always best to do a clean install when changing such base hardware as a motherboard.

However, having said that, I've just moved from an Intel DX38BT board, Q6600 CPU, to the spec in my sig, and I haven't reinstalled. Mainly due to me not actually wanting to bother, but partially due to waiting until I have my SSDs.

So you might get lucky, I guess it all depends on just how different the boards are. In my case, the HDD controller was technically the same, so booting up wasn't an issue.
 
Well the brands are different, old mobo is a Asus p5Ne SLI and the new is the MSI GD65. Doing a clean install do i need to format the drive? or Can i put the windows dvd in and select another option?
 
My brands were different too. An Intel branded x38 board and an Asus x58 board.

You don't need to format. Windows Setup will just create a directory called Windows.old, and shove everything (including your old Program Files, Users folders, etc) in there.

Obviously this requires you to currently have enough free space to do a 2nd install on the same disk, and it goes without saying that the old install becomes unbootable.
 
Yeah that not a problem, there is more than enough space on there, I just wanted to avoid formatting the disk and then having reinstall everything.
 
You will have to reinstall everything regardless of a format, if you are doing a reinstall.

Whilst it retains the Users folder and the Program Files folders, these are not mapped, and no registry settings are kept. This is simply a way to retain physical data for manual transfer into the new OS.

The ONLY way to not have to reinstall apps and recreate settings, is to try and boot from the old install.
 
OK i will try that first, if that fails I gues I have no option. I now instantly regret my decision to not get a ssd solely for my OS. Fail :(

Cheers for you help & advice.
 
xMagition said:
I now instantly regret my decision to not get a ssd solely for my OS. Fail :(
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If it's any consolation, you'd still have to reinstall your apps and games even if you were to have your OS on an SSD. Formatting the OS, regardless of where it sits, and regardless of where apps and games are installed to, means that you lose all registry entries and registered services/dlls for the apps in question.

The new OS wouldn't know about your applications on other disks anyway!

The only saving grace for this (IMO) is Steam. Steam will quite happily let you install Steam, exit it, copy over the old directory, and restart Steam. Low and behold as all your games don't need re-downloading :p
 
To be honest, unless you've calibrated your temperature monitoring software using a reliable physical thermometer and the appropriate heat settling routine on your CPU, I'd take any readings with a pinch of salt.

If your ambient room temperature is 21ºc, there isn't a chance that it's actually idling at 24ºc on air.

So long as it appears to be getting a relatively low reading, then it'll be fine.
 
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