RADEON Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 i was thinking about getting a new mb for my athlon64 2800. i am looking at the nf3 250 boards bnut i am wondering will i have to reinstall windows with the new mb?in the past ive gone from nf 2 mb to another nf 2 mb without any probs and no reinstall.but my current board is kt 800 chipset and i want an nf3. i am hopeing that since thier both amd boreds i could make the swich without any prob providing i uninstall all the drivers and such from the old board. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangar Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 At wrost it might tell you to re-activate it(assume you're useing XP) You may get better results by a fresh install though. Microsquash seems to like that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvaderTrax Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 You can just repair it. It's like reinstalling, but you keep all the stuff you've installed (except Windows updates and whatnot) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RADEON Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 k the repair i can deal with but reinstalling it again will drive me crazy.ill just make shure to uninstall all the drivers from my old mb first to make the transition as smooth as possible. thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 k the repair i can deal with but reinstalling it again will drive me crazy. i know what you mean dude, it takes me like a week minimum to get just the basics set back up... probably like two or three weeks til i'm fully loaded and everything is back to normal... Â but yeah a mobo/chipset drivers uninstall and windows system repair sounds like the best plan of action... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RADEON Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 i was just looking around for were the mobo/chipset drivers are and cant find them. i did find a file called pnpdrivers it has intell,via,nforce and sis but i think those are just the windows stock drivers not the ones that i put in from the cd for my mb. were do i fgind the drivers i installed?thier not in my control panel. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvaderTrax Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 (edited) If you do a repair, you don't have to uninstall the drivers. The installer will remove all your drivers for you and put back only the ones you'll need (like video drivers). It'll search it's own driver database for chipset ones, but it probably won't find them. If you don't have a driver CD for your new board, download them before you repair Windows, because without the chipset drivers, you can't get online (and if you don't try and install the chipset ones first, but the video ones get installed, they'll be null until you install the chipset ones, then reinstall the video ones) Edited July 8, 2004 by InvaderTrax Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RADEON Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 ahhhh very nice thank you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agallion Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 install it,, hten before u u install teh mobo un install the ata/ide drivers  i think this is was big red said to do Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 go to device manager BEFORE removing the old mobo. change your ide drivers to microsoft default. shut down, swap boards. it'll pickup the MS default drivers (the run home to mama ones). THEN you reinstall your drivers for the new board. 15 min total work and you're back on your feet again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RADEON Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 i checked my device manager and i think i allraedy got the default stock microsoft drivers.so could i just do the repair before i remove the old mb and then just shutdown remove old mb and replace it with new mb? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted July 8, 2004 Posted July 8, 2004 once you have the MS default (no nvidia, sis, via, intel drivers) you can just swap the mobo. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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