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I'm going to upgrade to water cooling on my new setup. (The Zalman heat sink I have will not keep up with the heat from the speed I'm running,3.91 gigs) which means I have to pull the motherboard. I've heard that you have to reinstall windows after this. I have three drives in my system. This will be a pain in the ##s. I did a search on this and I read that you don't need to reinstall it. Is this true? Like I said, I have three dives, two xp installs, one primary, one backup, and one storage drive. If anyone knows the answer to my question please get back to me. Thanks.
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Re: reinstall windows after removing motherboard
Unless you change the motherboard there is absolutely no need to reinstall Windows.GIgabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
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Re: reinstall windows after removing motherboard
If you are reusing the same motherboard then there is not a problem. Operating system reinstallation is recommended if you change the board for a different one because different drivers are generally needed for different setups.Antec 900 case (4 120mm and 1 200mm lighted fans + UFO flashing light set + 2 12" and 1 6" Mutant Mods meteor lights) - Aerogate ll thermal controller - Asus M2N-e SLI - AMD 64 X2 AM2 6400+ - Corsair TX650 PSU - MSI 450GTS Cyclone OC - 2 X 2GB Patriot Extreme Performance PC2 6400 RAM - SATA 320 GB Seagate HD, SATA 300GB Maxtor HD and IDE 80 GB Samsung HD - Floppy Drive/Card Reader Combo - LG SuperMulti Lightscribe 18x DVD RW - Plextor PX-716A DVD r/rw - Windows 7 Home Premium 64
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Re: reinstall windows after removing motherboard
awesome, thanks for the reply guysComment
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