[64] No need for clean install after new Mobo?

Hi all

Just upgraded my main computer which was running Vista 64bit.

It had an AM2 socket board and 2 GB of ram, I changed it for an Intel core2duo with 4 GB of ram. After the hardware change I thought I'd see what happened if I tried to boot it with the old HDD install which had just been upgraded to SP1. To my surprise it booted up fine and within 5 minutes the drivers were installed and it worked perfectly. I've since done a clean install, but I used it like that for a couple of days and it worked great.

No, no, no....that's wrong. It's supposed to go kafloowy and give you all sorts of error messages like "The Microsoft Police have been notified. Do NOT leave your house" or "You are in violation of MS Ordinance 256.4b. Your system will disintegrate in 10 seconds" or "Call Microsoft Registration within the next 10 minutes or we will kidnap your goldfish".

Now that's weird, it must have gone horribly wrong then because I didn't get any messages, but my goldfish has gone.