Mike M wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:

Fine, Mart. Just confirm for me that you want me to remove *all*
the stuff in that list of devices, reboot in *Normal* mode?

Yes, remove _everything_. The one driver that you can't really change
in this way is ACPI power management which if present but not supported
by the bios on the new motherboard may require a clean install of Win Me
to correct.

Removing all the devices in the device manager and rebooting will put
the system back to the state it would be, driver wise, following a clean
install of the operating system. Once you have the system in this state
you will need to install the various drivers required for your hardware
starting with the chipset drivers for your new motherboard.
Hmmmmm. ACPI doesn't scare me; the new system has it. But I thought
everything would install itself when I reboot in Normal Mode. If it's
going to prompt me, and ask if it should go looking for them, that I
can live with. But if it just sits there not working, I'll be worse
off than I am now. Now I'm scared again.