Reformat necessary for "lateral" motherboard swap?

[GTaudiophile]

Should I reformat just to swap out a motherboard? All other equipment remains the same...

From

GIGABYTE GA-Z87MX-D3H mATX Z87 (Haswell)

to

GIGABYTE GA-B85N mITX B85 (Haswell)

(Perhaps the latter would need a different Intel LAN driver? But both have Intel NICs.)

 

[mvbighead]

No, complete format not needed.

Use this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff184583.aspx

And delete any items that do not remain when the swap is complete.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Thanks for the technet tip!

 

[code65536]

Note that DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES is not necessary with (and has no effect on) Windows 8 (or Windows XP; not sure about Vista). I have no idea why they made that stupid change of hiding non-present devices on 7, but at least they reversed themselves in 8.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Note that DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES is not necessary with (and has no effect on) Windows 8 (or Windows XP; not sure about Vista). I have no idea why they made that stupid change of hiding non-present devices on 7, but at least they reversed themselves in 8.

No, XP had the same thing. I don't remember what the environment variable was for XP though, it might have been different.

 

[code65536]

No, XP had the same thing. I don't remember what the environment variable was for XP though, it might have been different.

Oh, yes, you're right. I had forgotten about it because with XP, I was using a custom slipstreamed image that had this setting baked in; I just checked my source files, and it was there (same name, too). Oops.

Well, it's definitely not needed for 8, though, which is still a step in the right direction.