I’ve been in need of a motherboard and CPU upgrade for some time now, but one of the things that’s kept me from actually doing it (Aside from money, of course) is the fact that I realize it’s usually a good idea to reinstall Windows when doing major hardware upgrades, especially those involving the motherboard. I’ve built quite a few computers from scratch, but this will be one of the first times I’ve replaced a modern motherboard in a working system.<\/p>\n
At the moment, I don’t really have the time to go through reinstalling Windows and getting everything back to normal with work and such, so I was just looking for some tips from others to avoid any complications this might bring forth.<\/p>\n
I’m assuming uninstalling motherboard and chipset drivers beforehand is a given, but is there anything else I should do before installing the new hardware? I don’t have anything specific chosen at the moment, but I’ll definitely be installing a newer Intel processor on either the 1151 or 1150 socket with either an ASUS or MSI motherboard – my current system specifications can be found in my signature.<\/p>\n
A big thanks in advance to everyone!<\/p>\n
MSI B75MA-P45 Motherboard
\nIntel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz
\n8GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM
\nEVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB
\nSamsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD (Windows 7 Ultimate)
\nToshiba 2TB HDD<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":35},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-14446","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/14446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=14446"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=14446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}