Need to reinstall windows?

simbady · 8 Feb 2009 at 13:46

Hi i am getting a new motherboard and CPU on tuesday will i need to reinstall windows or will it work at normal?

Mr.Nick · 8 Feb 2009 at 13:49

I think that once you've installed Cpu and motherboard, boot it up and it will fall over, then stick the Windows in and do a repair, but I'm not entirely sure about this as I've never tried.

GolfBryan · 8 Feb 2009 at 18:09

I have done this a few times and it works but I think a full reinstall would work better

simbady · 8 Feb 2009 at 18:10

I have reinstalled recently and really cant be bothered with it again

Mr-White · 8 Feb 2009 at 18:19

unless the mobos are very similar then it'll fall over, best bet is to reinstall that way you'll have all the appropriate drivers installed for best performance

MW

Liquidfox · 8 Feb 2009 at 20:36

There's no harm in trying to boot, if it falls over, then you've gotta reinstall windows, if not, it'll go through installing all the new drivers, then you'd be best cleaning out the old ones...

Probably easier to reinstall windows, you do have seperate partitions right?

J.B · 8 Feb 2009 at 20:40

Its worth reinstalling, although it can sometimes work the performance will not be as good as it can be. Crowded registry and so on.

gareth170 · 8 Feb 2009 at 20:45

even if u get into windows you'll get errors.

i just upgraded from a 9850 to 940 and i got many errors just for changing the cpu. so i just reinstalled all 3 windows

jamest · 8 Feb 2009 at 21:27

I recently went from an AMD system to Intel and windows (XP) booted straight away... :confused:

I did reinstall in the end though, just so everything was fresh

GolfBryan · 9 Feb 2009 at 17:46

Worked fine for me a number of times even when the parts have been vastly differant, a few restarts and a wee bit of tweaking and all works well.

lukeharvest · 9 Feb 2009 at 17:57

Yeah I needed to format and reinstall, although I did change the motherboard as well

Soc3chappd · 9 Feb 2009 at 17:58

Personally should always do a reinstall (fresh) when you change the motherboard. At the end of the day you dont want old useless drivers/code written over Windows clogging it up and slowing down for something that should be faster then old hardware.

Id spend a day getting it right, latest drivers for motherboard, SP1 Vista, latest graphics drivers (updating directx10 as well), etc. Then your set to go. It would be tradgic to leave it then find out after installing everything that you will need to start again. At least you will know any errors from a fresh install are not down to older software being on hard drive and that type of conflict.

Vir · 9 Feb 2009 at 18:14

I recommend a reinstall

I've done it before but I noticed it always runs better after a reinstall.

RJC · 9 Feb 2009 at 18:18

I tend to do a re-install on a new board