Optional but might be worth ahead of time (preparing) by removing any previous apps and drivers associated with the current motherboard (if installed). Any management apps, network drivers, audio drivers from the old manufacturer. Personally I even took off the AMD chipset drivers. I then put my new mobo in, installed all the new drivers and apps again and then put the AMD chipset drivers back on. I moved from Asus to ASRock. Afterwards, I still found old services installed (but not running) and old Asus folders hanging around that I had to clear away manually. Asus uninstallers doing a good job. Not!