I am currently saving money for when my haswell system fails and to upgrade to a comet lake i5. I was wondering if I would need to reinstall the os for this. All thoughts on the matter are appreciated.
Don't count on it.Wait. I have tinkered in older os (windows 98) and when I switch the hard drive it just gets a bunch of drivers and still runs.
A clean OS install is ALWAYS recommended when a motherboard change happens. You might get lucky and your old install will work, but you should PLAN as though it won't. Have all the install media and keys ready to go. Backups of personal files.I am currently saving money for when my haswell system fails and to upgrade to a comet lake i5. I was wondering if I would need to reinstall the os for this. All thoughts on the matter are appreciated.
Things have changed over the last 20+ years.Wait. I have tinkered in older os (windows 98) and when I switch the hard drive it just gets a bunch of drivers and still runs.
Don't count on it.Wait. I have tinkered in older os (windows 98) and when I switch the hard drive it just gets a bunch of drivers and still runs.