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Old June 3, 2012, 05:22 AM
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I filed for an RMA for my FTW3 mobo because SATA 3 wasn't working. Now when I get this new motherboard in, should I reformat windows or is it ok just to plugin and boot?
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Old June 3, 2012, 05:35 AM
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I am a true believer of a clean install when it comes to Motherboard and Graphics drivers. I will recommend you format just to make sure, but that's my personal view.
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Old June 3, 2012, 05:53 AM
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I am a true believer of a clean install when it comes to Motherboard and Graphics drivers. I will recommend you format just to make sure, but that's my personal view.
I was thinking the same thing, even though the drivers are the same for the motherboard, windows doesn't always completely remove old drivers after re installing them.
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Old June 3, 2012, 05:57 AM
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First back-up your wanted data from drive or use a new drive to install OS and get all current drivers for your OS to a disk and hardware check firmware updates and update in dos only. then install OS with your current drivers disk you made
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Old June 3, 2012, 06:03 AM
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First back-up your wanted data from drive or use a new drive to install OS and get all current drivers for your OS and hardware check firmware updates and update in dos only. then install OS
I have everything on my HDD, I usually just install the OS and let windows find all the drivers. Always works out good for me.
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Old June 3, 2012, 08:36 AM
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since it's the same board, you don't really have to do a clean install.

i would boot it up and see what happens first. save you alot of time as well.

i just upgraded from a gigabyte z68-ud3 to z68-ud5. same chipset. some of the integrated peripherals were different. windows detected all the new hardware. works perfect. saved myself hours of reinstall.
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Old June 3, 2012, 09:14 AM
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since it's the same board, you don't really have to do a clean install.

i would boot it up and see what happens first. save you alot of time as well.

i just upgraded from a gigabyte z68-ud3 to z68-ud5. same chipset. some of the integrated peripherals were different. windows detected all the new hardware. works perfect. saved myself hours of reinstall.
Also was thinking that, if I can save the time by not re installing, I will. We'll see what happens. Really don't feel like having to re install all my games and such.
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Old June 3, 2012, 09:34 AM
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the only thing is windows will think it is now installed on a different computer so you will have to reactive it.
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the only thing is windows will think it is now installed on a different computer so you will have to reactive it.
Figured that, hopefully it all goes well.
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Old June 3, 2012, 05:29 PM
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If it's the exact same board there is absolutely no reason to reformat and reinstall. Frankly you will just be wasting your time.
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