Help me with my frustration - AMD drivers

[jmarin]

Apparently taking an old SSD and putting it on a new machine is a bad idea or something. I've been trying really hard to get a new machine up and running, but any time I try to update drivers it literally sits at the "Please wait while detecting hardware...." screen forever. I've uninstalled drivers, used driver clean up tools, the whole 9. How long should this be sitting there detecting hardware?

 

[Josh | NFC]

Hello, jmarin.

Can you give us more insight into the current situation? Are you trying to use an old system drive from an intel computer as the system drive in your amd computer?

Or is this a system drive you are trying to use as a data drive in an amd computer?

Or is a data drive you are trying to use as a system drive or a data drive?

Thanks

 

[jmarin]

Hello, jmarin.

Can you give us more insight into the current situation? Are you trying to use an old system drive from an intel computer as the system drive in your amd computer?

Or is this a system drive you are trying to use as a data drive in an amd computer?

Or is a data drive you are trying to use as a system drive or a data drive?

Thanks

Sorry, should have noted. I took the drive for an Phenom II x4 955 BE machine with an ASUS motherboard and it's now in a Ryzen 5 2400G machine with the ASRock AB350 gaming itx/ac. It's a system drive to system drive. It boots up and works, but the drivers are just generic Windows drivers for the most part and the machine has trouble with shutting down and restarting completely (most likely due to drivers)

 

[T_Tank]

Oh good lord I'm glad I'm not the only one who is having this annoyance but I'm using the b350 prime matx board with a ryzen 1700.

Though I am using a spare HD I'm having issues with Asus not having the right download even up for the motherboard drivers it's the display drivers not the chipset.

I'd contact Asus and see if they can fix the web link or if you don't have a disk drive see if a buddy can rip the contents the disk to a flash drive

 

[Choidebu]

Generally it's never been easy to move system drive across different systems like that, if permitted at all by the OS maker.

Made me remember days of cloning barebone windows installation to multiple drives for net cafes back then. When system configuration/hardware changes you'll always have some extra work.

Recent windows boots just fine, but you will have this driver problem unless you really know how to cleanup drivers from windows thoroughly.

My suggestion is to just do a fresh install. Not worth the time to troubleshoot everything.

 

[jmarin]

Yeah I think that is the route I am going to go. Sucks since I already spent an hour on the phone with Microsoft earlier to activate windows LOL. Hoping I don't have a problem with the reinstall with the new key they gave me.

 

[jmarin]

Welp, reinstalling windows solved every single problem. Guess I should've tried that earlier ¯\_(ツ)_/¯