Ryzen ITX MB swap, both ASRock

stree wrote: Thanks to the embers here, I installed  my Samsung  EVO M.2 and Win 10 onto my ASRock AB350Fatal1ty Gaming ITX, which has been running great. However, seems I have won a competition and an ASRock X370 ITX is on its way to me! If I lift the M.2 from the 350, and use it in the X370, will it detect and run? or is it more complicted than that?..........Only the OS on the M.2 so no data at risk or to port. PS I will be using a Raven Ridge APU on the 370,  I have an R3 1200 on the 350

We normally do not recommend using an OS installation done on one mother board, later used on another. Strange problems can happen, which are hard to diagnose and fix besides installing the OS again.

But we have seen IMO amazing things happen when doing this. A Windows 10 installation done on an AMD chipset/processor board simply connected to an Intel chipset/processor board booted right up and worked. I did a vaguely similar thing myself by accident, two different Intel chipset boards, and it also booted up fine. I did not use it long term that way so I don't know if I would have had any problems.

Put it this way, what have you got to lose? If it boots fine, and it probably will, just definitely run the AMD chipset file installation program again. It should be easy to check which basic hardware is different between the two boards, like audio and networking chips, and just run the driver installation programs for them. Then remove the drivers for hardware that is no longer used, which may not even be necessary but a good idea IMO. Then check Device Manager for any problem devices, fix anything found, and see how it goes. That it works may be a behavior of Windows 10 that we don't get in earlier versions.

On the initial boot on the new board, Windows 10 will probably do a driver update of its own. So the first boot may be a little slower, and the updates might continue for a while once the Windows desktop is displayed. You might end up with generic Windows drivers in some cases, so I still suggest running the AMD chipset driver installation program, and others if necessary.

Since you changed mother boards, which is what Windows uses to detect a change in a PC (like installing the same Windows license on two different boards/PCs) you will likely need to activate Windows manually via the 800 number they will display for you, when it nags you about this.

It would be nice if you told us how it worked for you.

windows 10 is less kinky when u switch motherboards as long the old motherboard was not using ide and u switched to ahci (as ide is not supported on new mobos anymore)
when i switched my ssd from pc to notebook it needed just few drivers, no bsod at startup like on previous windowses

Whoooops.guess what ....... directly I posted that, checked file explorer and it is back online!
Even more puzzled now