Windows 7 - booting on a new motherboard

[HeatSurge]

I've been thinking lately... if I upgrade my current mobo (of course mem + proc too), I was wondering if I could just boot into win7 and it would magically remove (or at least disable so I can remove them myself) the old drivers, and install the new ones?

The last time I tried something like that, I think I was using windows 98, and it didn't boot on the new mobo so I had to reinstall it. I'm guessing that it tried to use some old mobo driver on the new mobo and it crashed of course. I was wondering if things have improved with XP and now 7...

Has anyone done anything like this?

 

[sixer9682]

Not exactly quite like that but...


I booted into Win7 with 2 different motherboards, both X58s and both from the same vendor, but different models with different drivers. Win 7 didn't even blink. As soon as it finished loading into Win7 it started downloading the drivers for "new hardware". Included in this were the chipset drivers. Everything's run like a dream. Hell, I've even booted with different generations of GPUs without changing or removing the drivers and it didn't blink at that either. It suggested I download and install new video drivers, but that was all (it was using generic drivers at 800x600 until I installed the correct one).

From my experiences, I would say it should work, but I do not know the technical answer for you.

 

[HeatSurge]

Well, I'm potentially going to be doing it from a nforce 4 SLI platform and a socket 939 CPU to a P55 mobo with some intel CPU... so it's not going to be exactly the same chipset (lulz).

I'll just give it a try when the time comes I guess. I hope it works.