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Does switching motherboard require a reinstall? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi all, I just bought a new motherboard and I’ll be buying a new CPU, too. The current one is a gigabyte 520i AC AM4 with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G on it currently. The new one is also gigabyte 550M AM4 and the new processor is Ryzen 7 5800xt. I currently dual boot Cachy OS and windows 11. Each has their own boot partition and I use grub. I’m going to bring everything over from the old mobo except the cpu that will stay on it since it’s going into another pc. Meaning, I’m bringing my SSDs and all that. Will I need to reinstall (please say no lol)? Will it be just plug and play or will I need to fiddle with a live environment to chroot?
Please let me know if you need more info. Thank you in advance.

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[–] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For your linux partition you'd probably just need to install new drivers. I've popped my boot drive into a bunch of different pcs with no issue.

Your windows partition might be weird, last i heard it assigns the activation to the motherboard serial number or something so you might have to redo the crack or provide your activation code again

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not worried about the license issue on windows. I actually do have the code saved up because I have always known that it ties it to the mobo.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Usually, you don't need to bother much with drivers at all outside of Nvidia GPUs and Broadcom modems since the kernel is monolithic and contains most drivers.

On an ATX motherboard, I think it's extremely rare for the ethernet chipset to require an out-of-kernel driver.

[–] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 2 points 1 day ago

This is true, i didn't read the part where he's keeping everything except the motherboard/cpu. I'm used to switching out to random gpus LMAO

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Some reviewers on Amazon even mentioned that it worked on Linux just fine.