Upgrading CPU/Mobo need to know what drivers to add to Acronis universal restore

[Time-Bandit]

Hi all,

Looking to upgrade me computer from whats in my sig to Asus B450 Steel legend motherboard and a 3200g.

My question is exactly what drivers/files do I need to add to my Acronis Universal restore?

and how do I get to said files?

With My HDD's do I need to add these to this again or will the system automatically pick these up since they are already in the current OS install?

This seems alot easier the Acronis - youtube.com/watch?v=JZn_hSlT0zk has anyone done this with success on Win 7 at all?

I saw other posts that said to edit the registry which I am happy to do, I would like to understand what I am changing in the registry before I do it however.

Cheers,

Bandit.

 

[trents]

I'm not familiar with Acronis universal restore. I use Macrium Reflect free version to create images of my computer's drive on a scheduled basis. If I change the motherboard I just delete the old images and create new ones since the old ones will be for a motherboard with a diffferent chipset. The key driver involved there I would think would be the chipset driver and the video card driver unless you are using the same video card with the new motherboard.

 

[Time-Bandit]

This might sound like a dumb question but what would I use as the Win 7 driver for the 3200g? / where is it I can't find info on what to do since there is only win 10 for it.

 

[trents]

It has Vega 8 graphics so if there is a Win 7 driver for that GPU series then you could try it. But I don't think you will get anywhere with this. Why are you still using Win 7?

 

[Time-Bandit]

Older titles that won't play on Windows 10 but work perfectly on Windows 7 even when trying with compat mode no difference.

On the ASUS website for my motherboard there is an "all in one vga" for that board, plus I forgot to mention I will be using a GTX 1660 Ti. Would windows install some basic driver to get it working ? or no such thing for CPU's ?

 

[trents]

No such thing I don't believe for CPUs. And there would also be the other issue of the EUFI bios of the motherboard. You would have to run the bios in legacy mode if it has that option. And is there a Windows 7 driver for the 1660 Ti?

This might work if you have enough RAM: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/se...older-or-incompatible-software-on-windows-10/

 

[Time-Bandit]

Quick forum searching on google im seeing answers of "yes for win 7 support on 1660 ti".

I have things around the other way. Win 7 with win 10 VM and also my mini pc running Win 10. Not interested putting it on my main machine.

 

[Time-Bandit]

How did this guy not do anything to his registry and straight swap mobo and cpu with no BSOD's??

 

[EarthDog]

How did this guy not do anything to his registry and straight swap mobo and cpu with no BSOD's??

Easily? I did it all the time... but it was amd to amd or intel to Intel. If I go from one to the other, I always do a fresh reinstall.

 

[Time-Bandit]

So I should be able to do the same go from FX to Ryzen doing the same? ofc with the USB issues which I can fix via Windows remote assistance.

My concern is doing the same and getting BSOD's but if I am up long enough I can get the driver stuff done I would imagine.

Not sure how to do this - https://www.win-raid.com/t5648f52-S...-driver-Update-Vulkan-OpenCL-API-support.html but ofc I will be rolling GTX 1660.

 

[EarthDog]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...p/sysprep--generalize--a-windows-installation

Honestly, you can do that, then swap it and install drivers. I typically do not even do that.

Why not a fresh install in the first place?