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kedz20xx
Title: Entertained
Posts: 80
Registered: 2008-5-7 09:09:17
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Date Posted:
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I got a new mobo for Christmas - Asus Sabertooth 990FX - and was curious if I could just delete my old mobo's chipset drivers in order to get this one to boot correctly. Old mobo is an Asus M3N78-PRO AM2.
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GrilledCheez
Title: The Lord's Balls
Posts: 1,060
Registered: 2006-3-22 11:06:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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wat?
The motherboard should boot correctly. Windows just might have trouble.
Reinstalling windows is easy so I've never tried to change mother boards and not reinstalled. I'm sure it can be done though.
You wouldn't need to delete the drivers. it will know you don't still have that chipset.
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the_great_intex
Title: This is what cool looks like
Posts: 1,669
Registered: 2002-6-27 08:18:27
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Date Posted:
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Shouldn't need to worry about deleting the drivers at all, unless you really want to. It shouldn't use those at all anyhoo. If Windows sees a new mobo I think all it does is check to see if there's new components and it might load up generic ones until it finds something better (I don't even know if it does that. Do motherboards even have drivers themselves, I thought it was only components? I guess it might install stuff for USB 3.0 and RAID controllers but those are still separate and should be picked up just like any new hardware I would think...)
That's the best I have =\
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GrilledCheez
Title: The Lord's Balls
Posts: 1,060
Registered: 2006-3-22 11:06:32
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Date Posted:
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Just try it you puss.
Worse case you might have to repair your installation. Stop being such a coward.
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kedz20xx
Title: Entertained
Posts: 80
Registered: 2008-5-7 09:09:17
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Date Posted:
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I spoke to my friend and he recommended a fresh install. He did say that deleting chipset drivers, etc for the old motherboard could work but did not recommend it.
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GrilledCheez
Title: The Lord's Balls
Posts: 1,060
Registered: 2006-3-22 11:06:32
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Date Posted:
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Your friend sounds like a moron. He's right about a fresh install though. I don't mind doing them at all, and with the media suites these days it's easy to move your crap off first.
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kedz20xx
Title: Entertained
Posts: 80
Registered: 2008-5-7 09:09:17
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Date Posted:
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GrilledCheez posted:
Just try it you puss.
Worse case you might have to repair your installation. Stop being such a coward.
I have, the issue was it does a quick BSOD and restarts. Everything works fine, Windows just won't boot.
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Lyken-P
Posts: 453
Registered: 2006-1-14 18:41:19
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Date Posted:
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I haven't tried with Windows 7, but with XP I've always had issues when I changed motherboards. I got into the habit of format and reinstall when I made a motherboard change.
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GrilledCheez
Title: The Lord's Balls
Posts: 1,060
Registered: 2006-3-22 11:06:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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There may be some kind of issue with the CPU ID changing. I'd think the error would be a little more robust.
reformat/reinstall is always the best plan, but if there is crap on there you don't want to lose just throw the install cd in there and repair the installation.
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the_great_intex
Title: This is what cool looks like
Posts: 1,669
Registered: 2002-6-27 08:18:27
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Date Posted:
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Maybe you need to install the drivers from the CD and set boot from CD over HDD so you can install it ahead of windows? Maybe you can do that. I don't know though... I don't see the huge difference between doing that and doing a first boot... a BSOD is defiantly a driver issue though unless there's something physically wrong with the set up (like a wild contact or it isn't being grounded properly)
Might also want to try to run Windows repair as well, that should install the drivers needed
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