should do re-install in place?

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi there,

I've put a new motherboard in an existing XP Home machine and because both the new and old motherboards have the Intel chipset it came up without any blue screen. I didn't re-install an in place deal, so loaded the Asus drivers from the CD and seems to be working fine so far.

Should I actually be doing an in-place reinstall just to be sure?

Thanks,

Gordon

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi there,

I've put a new motherboard in an existing XP Home machine and because both the new and old motherboards have the Intel chipset it came up without any blue screen. I didn't re-install an in place deal, so loaded the Asus drivers from the CD and seems to be working fine so far.

Should I actually be doing an in-place reinstall just to be sure?

Thanks,

Gordon

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[Dan H]

If you don't have any yellow exclamations in Device Manager then you are Ok.
Hi there,

I've put a new motherboard in an existing XP Home machine and because both the new and old motherboards have the Intel chipset it came up without any blue screen. I didn't re-install an in place deal, so loaded the Asus drivers from the CD and seems to be working fine so far.

Should I actually be doing an in-place reinstall just to be sure?

Thanks,

Gordon

 

[R. McCarty]

If you add a system environment variable:
DevMgr_Show_NonPresent_Devices
and set it's value = 1 then open Device Manager and click View &
tic/check "Show Hidden Devices" you'll find all the old/previous entries
for each category. The "Phantoms" will appear as grayed out or shown
in diminished tone. It's safe to uninstall or remove all of them except for
unplugged USB devices and also omit the Sound category as it's normal
for a long list of grayed out entries to appear in that listing.

You'll likely find numerous duplications in each category as their unique
ID strings are different from the original components.

If you don't have any yellow exclamations in Device Manager then you are Ok.
Hi there,

I've put a new motherboard in an existing XP Home machine and because both
the new and old motherboards have the Intel chipset it came up without any
blue screen. I didn't re-install an in place deal, so loaded the Asus
drivers from the CD and seems to be working fine so far.

Should I actually be doing an in-place reinstall just to be sure?

Thanks,

Gordon

 

[Dan H]

Hi R McCarty,
good stuff. Have you ever known it to cause issues if you don't remove the
"Phantoms"?
Working in the tech field when replacing a motherboard I never uninstalled
them and have never known of an issue. Not that it means it doesn't happen,
wecould just be getting lucky but I would like to know if you personally
know of known issues by not uninstalling so that I can consider bringing
this to the attention of my supervisors for consideration to begin
practicing this.

Thanks.

 

[R. McCarty]

I can't say that leaving "Phantoms" actually causes problems. They are
basically known devices that aren't currently present in Hardware profile.
My reasoning goes that say a phantom ATI Video card is left it should
be removed and it's driver package uninstalled. This is because you may
have interaction effects of a non-active video card driver loaded. There
are drivers that may get loaded at Windows startup that are unnecessary.

It's probably OK to leave phantom devices in the device table, but I just
have gotten in the habit of removing phantoms as a way to avoid issues.

Sorry for the long-winded, answer that's a non-answer. Some questions
aren't easy to explain.