Rebuilding my computer

Mailman86

Mailman86

Mailman86

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Tomorrow I will be swapping my computer case with another one. In addition to that I'm changing the coolers on the CPU and graphics card plus I'm changing the case fans. I'm also removing my regular DVD drive and my CD Writer drive and replacing them both with a single DVD Writer drive. I will also be replacing the onboard sound with a X-Fi Xtreme Music card. Everything else will stay the same.

I understand to install the sound card I should first disable the onboard sound, then physically install the card and finally install the drivers.

Apart from that will it just be a case of just taking the computer apart and building it in the new case again? Will I have to activate my windows installation again or even reformat my hard drive? Anything else I should know/think about?
 
Sound card wise, it depends where you disable it. But in my experience, I've always got away with shoving the soundcard in, and disabling in the BIOS.

Common sense tells me that if the motherboard has a disable onboard sound jumper, use that before turning the machine on. ;)
 
From looking at the motherboard manual it doesn't appear there is an onboard sound jumper. There is of course an option in the BIOS which I will disable before I take apart my computer. I'm also going to be uninstalling the onboard sound drivers as well before I start.
 
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