Recently, I got quite tired of my HP Pavilion prebuilt and bought a new PC case (be quiet! Pure Base 500DX), and a new motherboard (GIGABYTE Z390 Aorus Pro) as well, since the one in the prebuilt is outdated. Now, I am still on the pre-built PC as my parts haven't arrived yet. This PC has a SanDisk 500GB SSD with Windows 10 on it, and an extra 1 TB HDD with games and such on it.
I am aware I need to do a clean OS reinstall after changing motherboard. But I was wondering if, before taking this pre-built apart and moving the parts I need (GPU, PSU, RAM, CPU, drives) into the new case, should I enter Windows Setup through my Windows installation USB and do a diskpart clean on my OS drive so it's prepared for the new PC, or should I do it while on the other PC?
Another question, I'm planning to immediately update my BIOS to the latest version after building the PC and before installing Windows. I already have a USB drive with the latest BIOS update file on it, and it's formatted as FAT32, USB 3.0. Motherboard has a 3.0 port, good to go. However, in Q-Flash, when the updating is done and the initial restart happens, should I let it do its thing (I heard it might restart several times) and will it put me back into the BIOS automatically so I can load optimized defaults, or do I need to press DEL to get into the BIOS as soon as the initial restart is done?
Thank you.
I am aware I need to do a clean OS reinstall after changing motherboard. But I was wondering if, before taking this pre-built apart and moving the parts I need (GPU, PSU, RAM, CPU, drives) into the new case, should I enter Windows Setup through my Windows installation USB and do a diskpart clean on my OS drive so it's prepared for the new PC, or should I do it while on the other PC?
Another question, I'm planning to immediately update my BIOS to the latest version after building the PC and before installing Windows. I already have a USB drive with the latest BIOS update file on it, and it's formatted as FAT32, USB 3.0. Motherboard has a 3.0 port, good to go. However, in Q-Flash, when the updating is done and the initial restart happens, should I let it do its thing (I heard it might restart several times) and will it put me back into the BIOS automatically so I can load optimized defaults, or do I need to press DEL to get into the BIOS as soon as the initial restart is done?
Thank you.
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