Do I need to reformat prior to MB swap?

[Don 95Vert]

I'm upgrading from a Epox 8KH+ to a Soyo Platinum 400. Can I delete all the old devices, put the new board in and then install the new drivers? Will this cause nasty problems?

Or should I reformat the drive and start from scratch? I don't want to do this if I don't have to.

I'm running the Epox board with 512Mb of Crucial DDR 2100 RAM, a GEForce 2Ti and Windows ME. I have 2 HDs available-I planned on hooking each one to one of the RAID sockets on the MB and just running them as standard HDs.

Thanks,
Don

[Bigjakkstaffa]

It does make life much easier, having said that if its WINXP or WIN2k doing a repair process isntall straight after the rebuild can sometimes get things running okay :)

--Jakk:t

[ichorid]

yeah, or reinstall windows after upgrade,

BUT, what i do is delete registry key: hkey_local_machine/enum

delete enum, shutdown. this resets windows drivers, and what it thinks is in the box! same as reinstalling!