Do I have to reinstall Windows 10 after changing motherboard?

[PATENT]

I'm going to swap my MSI Z270A PRO motherboard for MSI Z270 Gaming M3. I'm doing this because A PRO simpy looks bad, it's brown and has terrible LED on left side, new mobo will look much better in my case etc. if you wonder. Do I have to reinstall windows 10 after replacing my old mobo? It's the same manufacter, same chipset, has the same BIOS and drivers. I just want to know because I'll get my hands on new mobo in Monday so in case I have to reinstall I'll do it at Sunday evening and save myself some time.

[Ash Man]

Well windows is install on your hard drive or on your ssd so no you dont have to reinstall it just plug the drive that you install windows from to the new motherboard.

[PATENT]

Originally posted by Ash Man:

Well windows is install on your hard drive or on your ssd so no you dont have to reinstall it just plug the drive that you install windows from to the new motherboard.

I mean will it work without problems... because after I swapped h110m to z270 bad things were happening

[[wan-clan.org] Gordy Freeman]

Technically no. You don't.

However I would highly recommend that, yes, you do.
It can go to the dogs 🐶 otherwise.....

[PATENT]

Originally posted by Gordy Freeman 🇦🇺:

Technically no. You don't.

However I would highly recommend that, yes, you do.
It can go to the dogs 🐶 otherwise.....

''It can go to the dogs 🐶'' what?

[[wan-clan.org] Gordy Freeman]

Go downhill fast.

[IceFoxX]

Remove old drivers before

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes when the system is not in a broken scenario; boot into the system as-is
Control Panel > Programs and Features
Now everything related to hardware drivers & software from your current Motherboard, Audio, GPU... uninstall everything for those until all are gone (may require a few reboots) basically anything and everything for say; Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, (and the branded board; like ASUS, MSI, etc.) Realtek, Creative... yes ALL of those.

Once all is gone, shutdown and swap Motherboards.

If the new Motherboard causes Win10 to trip up and not re-activate, call the MS Tech Support 1-800 # (for you Region) and explain that your old Motherboard died and now its failing to re-activate, they can easily walk you through this and help you get that sorted out.

When new motherboard is installed, make sure to double/triple check the BIOS before entering your OS.

When done at this point, now download all latest Drivers for everything your new board has (Chipset, Audio, LAN, USB, WiFi, RGB/Fan Software, etc) and then lastly, clean installing the GPU Driver. And you should be totally fine.

[IceFoxX]

Oh and if you did OC. Set anything default first.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well that wont matter; the new board will be defaults again.
But yes do not OC anything until after basically doing everything like I stated in Post#7
Then OC in steps; cause you never know if the new board will OC as good as the old; it's a crap-shoot.

[IceFoxX]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Well that wont matter; the new board will be defaults again.
But yes do not OC anything until after basically doing everything like I stated in Post#7
Then OC in steps; cause you never know if the new board will OC as good as the old; it's a crap-shoot.

So i flashed the bios from my rx480 for OC (there are reasons for this step) and it would not be default of course. But yea its not the normal way.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

For GPU none of that matters; it holds zero bearing on this scenario
As that is no different then "Stock GPU that is Pre-OC'ed from Factory"

What the OP will want to do is go download the latest BIOS for the new Motherboard from the maker's page and extract the contents to the root of a USB Flash Drive; once the new motherboard is installed, go into the BIOS with flash drive connected to a rear port (refer to manual for this) and update to latest bios from the start.

[PATENT]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Yes when the system is not in a broken scenario; boot into the system as-is
Control Panel > Programs and Features
Now everything related to hardware drivers & software from your current Motherboard, Audio, GPU... uninstall everything for those until all are gone (may require a few reboots) basically anything and everything for say; Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, (and the branded board; like ASUS, MSI, etc.) Realtek, Creative... yes ALL of those.

Once all is gone, shutdown and swap Motherboards.

If the new Motherboard causes Win10 to trip up and not re-activate, call the MS Tech Support 1-800 # (for you Region) and explain that your old Motherboard died and now its failing to re-activate, they can easily walk you through this and help you get that sorted out.

When new motherboard is installed, make sure to double/triple check the BIOS before entering your OS.

When done at this point, now download all latest Drivers for everything your new board has (Chipset, Audio, LAN, USB, WiFi, RGB/Fan Software, etc) and then lastly, clean installing the GPU Driver. And you should be totally fine.

Thanks

[IceFoxX]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

For GPU none of that matters; it holds zero bearing on this scenario
As that is no different then "Stock GPU that is Pre-OC'ed from Factory"

Ill flashed my rx480 with rx580 bios. So i flash it back if i do any change at the hw.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by IceFoxX:

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

For GPU none of that matters; it holds zero bearing on this scenario
As that is no different then "Stock GPU that is Pre-OC'ed from Factory"

Ill flashed my rx480 with rx580 bios. So i flash it back if i do any change at the hw.

U don't need to ever flash it back, period. All you're doing is wasting time.
GPUs that were able to be flashed in that manner as which you have done, are fine to leave this way forever now.

[IceFoxX]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Originally posted by IceFoxX:

Ill flashed my rx480 with rx580 bios. So i flash it back if i do any change at the hw.

U don't need to ever flash it back, period. All you're doing is wasting time.
GPUs that were able to be flashed in that manner as which you have done, are fine to leave this way forever now.

Ok will inform me better about it.