Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
I am changing motherboards. My operating system is on a ssd hard drive. Is doing a clean install on a ssd hard drive different than a mechanical hard drive? My operating system is Win 8.1. I am going from a MSI Z77 board to an MSI Z87 board.
Your system is already booting from the SSD so theres really no bios change needed. The windows installer should see the existing drive as it is right now. However, you could use this as an opportunity to make sure your sata controller is in AHCI mode instead of the old IDE compatible mode. Although making this change once installed isn't too difficult.