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Format after replacing motherboard with same model?

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josboh

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pretty straight-forward question here i think. I just rma'd my p4p out and got a new one back. i put it back in the box with nothing else changing and i get random errors sometimes. The worse part is that my 6600gt is waaay under performing and im wondering if thats because i needed to reformat after the change even if the board is the same model. I mean, I even replaced the drivers for the video card and it didnt help.
Any help would be appreciated.
 
Never has this happen (yet) but I thought you could just swap them out with no format needed. You said you get random error, is that inside Windows or on boot-up? Make sure all your bios settings are back they way they were?
 
You shouldn't need to reformat. If you are having degraded performance check all your bios settings and such. I would only do the boot-and-nuke routine if you've exhausted all other options.

 
random errors are that the programs in windows will quit for no reason when they didnt before.

boot and nuke? is that reformating or not? not trying to sound naive. just a phrase i havent heard of.
 
Right, "boot N nuke" would be a reformat.

Since your getting the errors inside Windows, a reformat is problaly a good choice. If you don't have any info you can't afford to loose.

I'm sad to see this happen because I might have to exchange my MB pretty soon and was hoping I could just swap them.
 
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