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Allan J. Behr
I have a vista system...want to upgrade my processor and motheroard. Do I
have to reinstall all my applications...hope not!!!
have to reinstall all my applications...hope not!!!
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Rock
Allan J. Behr said:I have a vista system...want to upgrade my processor and motheroard. Do I
have to reinstall all my applications...hope not!!!
Depends on how radical the changes are. Make sure you have a full backup, I
recommend imaging the system to an external hard drive before hand.
Run a startup repair from the Vista DVD by booting from it. If that doesn't
work then you might have to do a clean install.
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Tom Scott
Well you may have lots of problems if you change the MB and do not do a
clean install of windows, you will also need to reactivate windows as well!
clean install of windows, you will also need to reactivate windows as well!
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Alun Harford
Allan said:I have a vista system...want to upgrade my processor and motheroard. Do
I have to reinstall all my applications...hope not!!!
In theory, one of Vista's new features is that you can just replace the
hardware and it'll sort itself out when it boots.
I've not tested that though.
Be sure to backup everything before you do so a massive change.
Alun Harford
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Steve Thackery
I have a vista system...want to upgrade my processor and motheroard. Do I
No, you don't. If your Windows installation can sort out the new drivers,
all will be fine. It will almost certainly work OK with the default drivers
that come with Vista.
Sometimes a motherboard change can upset the OS enough to require a
reinstallation, but that means reinstalling the OS as well as your apps.
Steve
have to reinstall all my applications...hope not!!!
No, you don't. If your Windows installation can sort out the new drivers,
all will be fine. It will almost certainly work OK with the default drivers
that come with Vista.
Sometimes a motherboard change can upset the OS enough to require a
reinstallation, but that means reinstalling the OS as well as your apps.
Steve
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mikeyhsd
if you are replacing both from the same family, like staying with processor manufacturer, same with mother board, you might get by with just an upgrade install which will refresh most of the os.
there is no way to tell for sure that some apps may or may not need to re reinstalled,.
you will have to just try them afterwards.
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I have a vista system...want to upgrade my processor and motheroard. Do I
have to reinstall all my applications...hope not!!!
there is no way to tell for sure that some apps may or may not need to re reinstalled,.
you will have to just try them afterwards.
(e-mail address removed)
I have a vista system...want to upgrade my processor and motheroard. Do I
have to reinstall all my applications...hope not!!!
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Kerry Brown
Vista is much better at this than previous versions of Windows. There are a
couple of gotcha's. You may need to perform a startup repair a couple of
times. If the new motherboard uses a RAID controller you may have to install
the driver. I think this can be done from the startup repair but I've never
actually tried it. The main consideration is your version of Vista. If it is
an OEM version you may not be able to activate it on the new hardware.
Make sure you have a couple of backups before starting.
couple of gotcha's. You may need to perform a startup repair a couple of
times. If the new motherboard uses a RAID controller you may have to install
the driver. I think this can be done from the startup repair but I've never
actually tried it. The main consideration is your version of Vista. If it is
an OEM version you may not be able to activate it on the new hardware.
Make sure you have a couple of backups before starting.
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Alun Harford
Kerry said:Vista is much better at this than previous versions of Windows. There
are a couple of gotcha's. You may need to perform a startup repair a
couple of times. If the new motherboard uses a RAID controller you may
have to install the driver. I think this can be done from the startup
repair but I've never actually tried it. The main consideration is your
version of Vista. If it is an OEM version you may not be able to
activate it on the new hardware.
Make sure you have a couple of backups before starting.
If it needs a RAID driver, I'd install the driver before you add the
hardware.
Alun Harford
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Kerry Brown
It depends on how the driver installs. With some that use a setup program
they won't install if the hardware isn't present.
they won't install if the hardware isn't present.
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Guest
I'm going to do the same thing just as soon as my new mb, cpu and memory
arrive. I'm currently on an nf4 abit fatal1ty an8 with an opteron 175. I am
replacing it with a msi p6n sli platinum with a nforce 650i chipset, intel
e6400 and 2 gb of corsair xms2 ddr2 ram. I'm going to do it like I've done
in the past when moving from one nf chipset to another in xp. I'm going to
first uninstall all of my mb specific drivers and utilities before I shut
down to do the swap. When vista restarts it will be on the generic ms
drivers at bootup. After I reboot I'll reinstall all of the nvidia drivers
and then the msi mb specific stuff. I'll keep you guys posted as to what
happens. I'm on retail ultimate so if it goes awry then I'll just do a clean
install and start over again. I've backed up everything but it's still a
pita.
arrive. I'm currently on an nf4 abit fatal1ty an8 with an opteron 175. I am
replacing it with a msi p6n sli platinum with a nforce 650i chipset, intel
e6400 and 2 gb of corsair xms2 ddr2 ram. I'm going to do it like I've done
in the past when moving from one nf chipset to another in xp. I'm going to
first uninstall all of my mb specific drivers and utilities before I shut
down to do the swap. When vista restarts it will be on the generic ms
drivers at bootup. After I reboot I'll reinstall all of the nvidia drivers
and then the msi mb specific stuff. I'll keep you guys posted as to what
happens. I'm on retail ultimate so if it goes awry then I'll just do a clean
install and start over again. I've backed up everything but it's still a
pita.
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NotMe
I haven't had any luck with that in XP.
W98/ME worked OK that way, but I have always had to do a repair install &
reactivate XP.
I doubt Vista will let you do any less.
W98/ME worked OK that way, but I have always had to do a repair install &
reactivate XP.
I doubt Vista will let you do any less.
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Allan J. Behr
Please keep us posted. This is a real issue to me.