- Jul 19, 2020
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How to avoid issues when upgrading my build?
Tomorrow I'm planning to upgrade from my old B450 Tomahawk Max and a 5800x to a B650 Aorus Elite AX V2 with a new 9800x3D, so I've spent some time reading older posts on the forum about changing to a new motherboard and it's clear I should do a clean install of windows and format my current SSD (to my knowledge there's no personal files I value on it so that shouldn't be an issue)
The confusion comes with what I need to download on my USB drive and in what order? I have downloaded the media creation tool to it as so many posts have advised but do I not also have to download the relevant bios updates and drivers? Or is that done after the windows install? Really don't want to mess this part up because once I have swapped the parts over I don't have an easy way to install anything to the USB drive as I don't have another pc to hand . I also have some concern on whether I actually need to format my SSD before installing it on my new board or (what I imagine) the Microsoft media creation tool I downloaded will automatically clear the drive when I choose to boot with it from bios leaving me without the need to do so.
I do have experience changing pretty much every component at least once over the 4-5 years since initially building my pc excluding the motherboard, mostly following video or written guidance but the bios and windows stuff is kind of throwing me so all help is appreciated, thanks!
Tomorrow I'm planning to upgrade from my old B450 Tomahawk Max and a 5800x to a B650 Aorus Elite AX V2 with a new 9800x3D, so I've spent some time reading older posts on the forum about changing to a new motherboard and it's clear I should do a clean install of windows and format my current SSD (to my knowledge there's no personal files I value on it so that shouldn't be an issue)
The confusion comes with what I need to download on my USB drive and in what order? I have downloaded the media creation tool to it as so many posts have advised but do I not also have to download the relevant bios updates and drivers? Or is that done after the windows install? Really don't want to mess this part up because once I have swapped the parts over I don't have an easy way to install anything to the USB drive as I don't have another pc to hand . I also have some concern on whether I actually need to format my SSD before installing it on my new board or (what I imagine) the Microsoft media creation tool I downloaded will automatically clear the drive when I choose to boot with it from bios leaving me without the need to do so.
I do have experience changing pretty much every component at least once over the 4-5 years since initially building my pc excluding the motherboard, mostly following video or written guidance but the bios and windows stuff is kind of throwing me so all help is appreciated, thanks!
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