Motherboard Swap

[davegood]

I am planning to upgrade my motherboard but to keep the present hard-drive,
which contains my Win 98SE O/S,pgms and drivers.
My question is: how do I get rid ofthe drivers for my old motherboard, ie
go back to the Windows generic settings, so that I can then load the
drivers for the new mobo???
Thanks in Advance
davegood

 

[bluestringer]

I am planning to upgrade my motherboard but to keep the present hard-drive,
which contains my Win 98SE O/S,pgms and drivers.
My question is: how do I get rid ofthe drivers for my old motherboard, ie
go back to the Windows generic settings, so that I can then load the
drivers for the new mobo???
Thanks in Advance
davegood

It's best to do a clean install of windows after upgrading a motherboard.
Then use the motherboard CD.

bluestringer

 

[DaveW]

When using Windows, if you change the motherboard then you MUST reformat the
harddrive and do a clean install of the OS, otherwise you will get ongoing
nasty Registry errors.

 

[Dave C.]

When using Windows, if you change the motherboard then you MUST reformat the
harddrive and do a clean install of the OS, otherwise you will get ongoing
nasty Registry errors.

Yup. No way around it. And if necessary to install drivers for your
motherboard (it probably is), make sure you use the latest drivers
downloaded from the web site of whoever made the motherboard. -Dave

 

[Shep©]

I am planning to upgrade my motherboard but to keep the present hard-drive,
which contains my Win 98SE O/S,pgms and drivers.
My question is: how do I get rid ofthe drivers for my old motherboard, ie
go back to the Windows generic settings, so that I can then load the
drivers for the new mobo???
Thanks in Advance
davegood

Copy your new mother board drivers pack off the Cd to a Folder on your
hard drive.
Then run Regedit and remove the Enum key,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum
and re-boot.
you can then point to the mother board drivers on the hard drive.
All hardware will be re-detected but sometimes the Cdrom drives get
installed late hence it's easier to copy the mother board drivers off
the Cd to the hard drive.I even make sub folders and put my
modem/sound and video card drivers in them.Makes it easy and I don't
have to hunt for Cdrom disks


HTH



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try this Util

 

[Mr. Slow]

Copy your new mother board drivers pack off the Cd to a Folder on your
hard drive.
Then run Regedit and remove the Enum key,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum
and re-boot.
you can then point to the mother board drivers on the hard drive.
All hardware will be re-detected but sometimes the Cdrom drives get
installed late hence it's easier to copy the mother board drivers off
the Cd to the hard drive.I even make sub folders and put my
modem/sound and video card drivers in them.Makes it easy and I don't
have to hunt for Cdrom disks


HTH

Absolutely right. Exactly how I do it! It is rarely necessary to refomat the
hard drive with a motherboard change in Win 98.

 

[Dave C.]

Absolutely right. Exactly how I do it! It is rarely necessary to refomat the
hard drive with a motherboard change in Win 98.

That's like saying it's rarely necessary to change the engine oil in your
car. Yeah, you could probably go a quarter million miles on the factory
fluids, but it's not a good idea. The PROPER method is to format and
reinstall. It's not just to get the drivers working right the first try,
but it's ALSO to clean out all the other junk that has accumulated over time
that is ALREADY hindering system performance. There is no shortcut. Format
and reinstall. -Dave

 

[Shep©]

Absolutely right. Exactly how I do it! It is rarely necessary to refomat the
hard drive with a motherboard change in Win 98.

I rarely have the option to clean re-install on user's systems as they
don't want to lose data so I have to use several none data
destructive ways like this :/
This present install of win98SE of mine is over a year old and been
over-installed,cut up and mangled and two mother boards and still
never been,"Clean" re-installed



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[David B.]

Wrong

 

[KC Computers]

We are a dealer and a trick that we do is to
re-install Windows '98 in the same directory right
after you swap the motherboard and BEFOFE
allowing Windows to boot. If you have the
full version of Windows, then it may complain that
there is already a Windows installation. In that case
just exit or boot into DOS and re-name the 'win.com'
file to anything else such as 'win.bak' before trying again.

 

[David B.]

I do this on a daily basis and see no need to reinstall windows, deleting the enum key is usually sufficient, except in the case of
a very hosed Windows load to begin with.

 

[Mr. Slow]

That's like saying it's rarely necessary to change the engine oil in
your car. Yeah, you could probably go a quarter million miles on the
factory fluids, but it's not a good idea. The PROPER method is to
format and reinstall. It's not just to get the drivers working right
the first try, but it's ALSO to clean out all the other junk that has
accumulated over time that is ALREADY hindering system performance.
There is no shortcut. Format and reinstall. -Dave

Your analogy is misleading, Dave. Fluids in a car deteriorate gradually and
lose their effectiveness as lubricants. The only solution is to periodically
change them or replace the hardware. Properly managed computers can be
cleaned of their junk, kept at top performance but whatever the hardware
rarely deteriorates.

I agree that ideally one would reformat and reinstall but there are many
reasons why this is not always possible or necessary. I have many systems
working just fine for myself and other people where the mobo and CPU have
been changed without reformatting the HDD. It's important to stress however
that this is much easier on Win 9* systems. Win 2K and XP are less likely to
work........

 

[Dave C.]

Your analogy is misleading, Dave. Fluids in a car deteriorate gradually
and

lose their effectiveness as lubricants.

Same thing happens to the registry. You need to format and reinstall
periodically, even if you don't make any significant hardware changes.
Unfortunate, but true. Doesn't seem to apply to Windows XP as much
hough. -Dave