After the Crash

[Jim Satterfield]

My system was running an ASUS A8N-E MB with an AMD 4200+. Then at some point
the cooling fan for the chipset died. The system wouldn't go any further
than the ASUS splash screen. Being in a hurry and with no vendor in town
with a decent 939 MB to replace the ASUS and having some spare hardware
lying around the core of the system was replaced with a MSI P965 Platinum
MB, an Intel DualCore 6600 and PC5300 RAM instead of the PC3200 that the
ASUS used.

I got it to boot in safe mode and started replacing drivers. The problem is
that the one thing I can't clear up is a "limited connectivity" message and
no ability to get to my network or the internet. I need to fix that problem
and also I assume there's junk drivers still sitting there from the old
hardware. Does anyone have any idea on the best way to clean up this mess?
The help would be appreciated.




Jim

 

[Ghostrider]

My system was running an ASUS A8N-E MB with an AMD 4200+. Then at some point
the cooling fan for the chipset died. The system wouldn't go any further
than the ASUS splash screen. Being in a hurry and with no vendor in town
with a decent 939 MB to replace the ASUS and having some spare hardware
lying around the core of the system was replaced with a MSI P965 Platinum
MB, an Intel DualCore 6600 and PC5300 RAM instead of the PC3200 that the
ASUS used.

I got it to boot in safe mode and started replacing drivers. The problem is
that the one thing I can't clear up is a "limited connectivity" message and
no ability to get to my network or the internet. I need to fix that problem
and also I assume there's junk drivers still sitting there from the old
hardware. Does anyone have any idea on the best way to clean up this mess?
The help would be appreciated.




Jim

Whilst replacing the drivers, did this include all of the drivers that
are supplied with the MSI motherboard, for its chipset, sound, LAN (if
on-board), etc.? There is more to the swap than repairing the Windows
XP part of the installation.

 

[Jim Satterfield]

I accidentally didn't reply to the group earlier. Yes, the drivers I
installed were the MSI drivers.

 

[Rock]

My system was running an ASUS A8N-E MB with an AMD 4200+. Then at some
point the cooling fan for the chipset died. The system wouldn't go any
further than the ASUS splash screen. Being in a hurry and with no vendor
in town with a decent 939 MB to replace the ASUS and having some spare
hardware lying around the core of the system was replaced with a MSI P965
Platinum MB, an Intel DualCore 6600 and PC5300 RAM instead of the PC3200
that the ASUS used.

I got it to boot in safe mode and started replacing drivers. The problem
is that the one thing I can't clear up is a "limited connectivity" message
and no ability to get to my network or the internet. I need to fix that
problem and also I assume there's junk drivers still sitting there from
the old hardware. Does anyone have any idea on the best way to clean up
this mess? The help would be appreciated.

So you moved the hard drive from the original setup to the new one? The
normal way to do this is to perform a repair install. Sometimes that isn't
enough and a clean install is needed.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html