philanthropist Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 Im installing a new MB with the AMD 880FX chipset. If my previous board had the 880G chipset do you think my OS will boot up or will I have to do a reinstall? I have 2 x SSD in raid 0 so I would have to make a back up image, clean the drives then reinstall my OS. I just dont want to do the back up if it wont work to begin with. Anyone have a clue here? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black64 Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 (edited) You could try seeing if the OS will still work. I went from my 2010 PC to my 2011 PC without reinstalling the OS. I back everything up and just wanted to see if it would work and it did. Changing new hardware is always hit and miss, you never know if it will work, but to be safe always back up before hand. Edited October 29, 2011 by Black6464 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop245 Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 Easiest way to make it work is to uninstall your mobo drivers before tearing it apart then once the new mobo is up and running install its drivers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 You can just swap them. They use the same drivers and RAID controllers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philanthropist Posted November 3, 2011 Posted November 3, 2011 Thx for your help guys. I'll uninstall and run the driver cleaner just to be safe then boot the new board up. I'm going from a single PCIE Asus board to the Asus Crosshair IV so can run 2 HD5850's. I picked it up 120 from a friend. Sweet board! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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