Hey peoples,
I just wanted some advice from people with first hand experience at upgrading motherboards without re-installing windows. I'm upgrading from my ASUS P8H61-M LE to Gigaabyte B75-D3V. Also means I can dual Sli my GPU.
Anyway, I've read that you can just swap the mobo and boot in safe mode and windows 7 will change the drivers. I've also read to go into safe mode to remove the old drivers, reboot and run CCleaner then swap and boot into safe mode.
Any suggestions or advice?
Thanks
Wowdude
I just wanted some advice from people with first hand experience at upgrading motherboards without re-installing windows. I'm upgrading from my ASUS P8H61-M LE to Gigaabyte B75-D3V. Also means I can dual Sli my GPU.
Anyway, I've read that you can just swap the mobo and boot in safe mode and windows 7 will change the drivers. I've also read to go into safe mode to remove the old drivers, reboot and run CCleaner then swap and boot into safe mode.
Any suggestions or advice?
Thanks
Wowdude
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Home Built
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Windows 10 Home Premium 64-bit
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz Quad Core
- Motherboard
- Asus P8H61-M LE
- Memory
- 2 x 4Gb XMS3 DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Asus nVidia GeForce GTX 550Ti
- Sound Card
- On-Board
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer S220 HQL & Hanns-G HWD191D
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080 & 1440 x 900
- Hard Drives
- 1Tb Seagate(Windows 7), 2Tb Western Digital & 120Gb SSD (Windows 10)
- PSU
- 750W Alpine
- Case
- TTake Dokker Case
- Cooling
- Corsair H60 all-in-one water cooling CPU block
- Keyboard
- ACT K-8108 Skype multimedia keyboard
- Mouse
- Trust GTX 145
- Internet Speed
- 10Mb
- Antivirus
- MSE
i'll start a new thread if i have any problems but seems pretty straight forward. Easier than saving all the registry keys like in the old days, was eadier then to do a fresh install!