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Going from nforce 3 754 to nforce 4 939

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Alowishus

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Would it be possible to just swap out my old nforce 3 motherboard for my new nforce 4 motherboard and just install the new drivers? Or should I uninstall the old forceware drivers/use driver cleaner and then install my new motherboard?

PS. I have also heard of the sysprep method, but I heard it causes problems with the recovery console password.
 
Hey Alowishus

I am probably not well liked here for my stance on this, but I stand by it.

I've done exactly what you want to do more than once, and I've never had a single problem doing so. Infact, I don't even prep my system. Going from nV to nV is stupidly easy for the OS to cope with and it's not a trouble at all. I swapped out my Soltek NF3 250 board for an Asus A8N-E NF4 Ultra, and ran into not even a single issue. Just shut my system down, installed new mb/CPU (and a 7800GT at the time too) and away I went.. a reboot or 2 later my system was ready to rock with the latest drivers.

If I were you, I'd just make sure you install the latest drivers before you reboot, and then shut the system off as it's in reboot stage (or just shut down instead of letting the system reboot) and add the new mb. It should work perfectly.

Up to you if you want to take it farther, but you just don't have to. I'm always prepared for the possibility of format, but I almost never have any issues with a hardware swap, and my system runs stable for quite some time after. (Still running on the same install from earlier this year)

good luck w/it...
 
thanks, thats EXACTLY what I needed to hear. At any given time I have all of my stuff backed up, but its just a royal pain to sit there for hours reinstalling everything and redoing all of my settings after a format, so I hope to avoid it at all costs.
 
Potentially Windows may need to be re-activated, otherwise similar chipsets aren't too much of a problem. I've done something similar, going from a SiS 648 chipset to an older SiS 645DX chipset with no problems. Windows didn't even flinch or ask for anything besides sound drivers.
 
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