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Changing motherboards

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subnetrx

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I'm RMA'ing my Chaintech as per Chaintech themselves. I'm buying an Abit in it's place. Same chipset. I used the Nvidia reference drivers when installing the mobo in the first place and didn't use anything from the CD. Should I really have to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows?
 
Doubt it, since its the same chipset. Plus, sounds like you didn't install any Chaintech specific drivers. I wouldn't think there'd be any problems at all.

Fern
 
same chipset --> same chipset almost guaranteed to work fine. I've done it multiple times without fail, and in the end, the system still runs perfectly (no quirks)
 
thanks for the replies, I was thinking that's the way it SHOULD be, but I never know with Windows. I'm just crossing my fingers that it will re-activate now.
 
IMO, you should uninstall all your device/chipset drivers before taking the system apart, then reinstall them when you replace the board. I switched from a Neo4 Platinum to an Asus A8R-MVP and did that, and things worked fine (except for ASUS update). I did eventually do a clean reinstall though.
 
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