I'm planning on replacing my B85 mobo with a Z97 motherboard and want to do it with as little trouble as possible. I would prefer to not to have to install a clean version as I have pretty slow internet and it would take a while to reinstall everything (4mbps down). Or alternatively is there a tool I can use to back everything up to an external harddrive and then restore it once I've got the new motherboard installed?
The general advice is to reinstall windows (not reformat exactly). But, it might be possible to work as-is. I'd just try to see if it boots, if there are serious issues, just reinstall.
On older Windoze versions I'd definitely say re-install, but on Win8 you can just swap out the parts, wait for Windoze to reconfigure, and re-activate (you'll probably have to phone them because that license "is used on another computer"). That's what I recently did when going from a Sandy Bridge Pentium to the new G3258.
Oh, and don't complain about your internet, mine's 2 Mbit on paper, and usually 500-900Kbit in real life.
Thanks a lot for the info guys, for some reason I thought it was way more complicated than it really is!
And @JKuhn 4mbps is roughly 500kb/s, and the fastest I've ever downloaded was I think 650kb/s... Not impressive seeing as I'm a few streets away from people who have the option of fiber getting true 100+mbps.
Thanks a lot for the info guys, for some reason I thought it was way more complicated than it really is!
And @JKuhn 4mbps is roughly 500kb/s, and the fastest I've ever downloaded was I think 650kb/s... Not impressive seeing as I'm a few streets away from people who have the option of fiber getting true 100+mbps.
With the 500 kb/s, do you mean kilobits or kilobytes? The speeds I mentioned are Kbits and Mbits. If you only get 500 kilobits/s on a 4Mb/s line, then I take back what I said about not complaining.
With the 500 kb/s, do you mean kilobits or kilobytes? The speeds I mentioned are Kbits and Mbits. If you only get 500 kilobits/s on a 4Mb/s line, then I take back what I said about not complaining.
when i say mbps i mean Mbits, when i said kb/s i mean kilobytes per second. 500 kilobits is just terrible... I'm 'supposed' to have a 3-5Mbps line so I guess 4Mbps is okay.
I went from a Phenom II 1090T Crosshair III to a 980x and Rampage III without a reinstall. Like the other guy said, just remove certain drivers first from the previous platform.
Might need to reactivate windows though.
I just reinstalled windows today, it's pretty annoying and boring!
when i say mbps i mean Mbits, when i said kb/s i mean kilobytes per second. 500 kilobits is just terrible... I'm 'supposed' to have a 3-5Mbps line so I guess 4Mbps is okay.
I went from a Phenom II 1090T Crosshair III to a 980x and Rampage III without a reinstall. Like the other guy said, just remove certain drivers first from the previous platform.
Might need to reactivate windows though.
I just reinstalled windows today, it's pretty annoying and boring!
Personally I didn't even bother. If you get problems though, check the Add/Remove Software and remove anything from your old board that isn't needed. You'll have to see what those drivers are.
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