Question new mobo

[Moriath]

whats the easiest least work way of rebuilding the OS as i have just had to replace my mobo

would it be reinstalling over the previous version?

then reinstalling all the apps / games etc ?

 

[Overdriven]

Logically you shouldn't have to. But if you did, a format would be a quick way (XP takes less than 20m to install these days tbh)

 

[Moriath]

im on vista 64 bit

i really dont want to format will mean having to move lots of stuff first :/

 

[inactionman]

Changing motherboards without doing a reinstall, especially if you change chipset, can be quite dodgy. It may work, or you may end up with all sorts of strange errors.

Definitely not recommended.

 

[Moriath]

yup finding that out now having problems with the ethernet controller guess its gonna be a reinstall well keep me busy tonight

 

[Moriath]

nope seems the new mobo that was put in has a borked ethernet controller cause tho it says its there in device manager all the drivers i tried for it (cd for the mobo, updated drivers from gigabytes webbie, realtek drivers from the chip makers webbie etc etc, ) none will be recognised and when forcing the install of the driver it borks out failing to start the controller .....

Grrrr one dead mobo followed by a borked one :'(