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Originally Posted by Blameless 
In my experience, you can avoid reinstalling Windows while still having a completely/correctly functioning system if you manually remove all hardware/devices and drivers, then reinstall everything for the new board. Problem is that this is often a bigger ordeal than reinstalling Windows.
If you simply swap boards without doing anything else, it's often very hit or miss as to whether everything will work correctly or not. If the hardware is very similar, you are often fine, but the greater the difference, the more that can go wrong.

In my experience, you can avoid reinstalling Windows while still having a completely/correctly functioning system if you manually remove all hardware/devices and drivers, then reinstall everything for the new board. Problem is that this is often a bigger ordeal than reinstalling Windows.
If you simply swap boards without doing anything else, it's often very hit or miss as to whether everything will work correctly or not. If the hardware is very similar, you are often fine, but the greater the difference, the more that can go wrong.
Yeah, mine was OK but I got better performance once re-formatting going from a EP45-UD3P to this z77x-D3H







