"Olin K. McDaniel" wrote in message
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 17:43:32 -0500, "glee"
wrote:

When you are going to change major hardware such as the motherboard and processor,
you first need to remove the drivers for everything that is part of that
hardware.....chipset drivers, onboard audio and video, onboard LAN, floppy
controller, hard drive controllers, and so forth. If you did not do that before
changing the hardware, you should do it now from Safe Mode in Win98, as that is
the
OS giving you trouble.

Click StartRun, type: scanregw
|click OK|
When prompted, say Yes to backing up the Registry.

Next, if your old or new motherboard uses onmboard video rather than a dedicated
video card, uninstall any display software and drivers, allowing Windows to change
your display adapter to Standard VGA 640x480, and reboot if prompted. Then
uninstall any audio software and drivers that are not part of the new system.

Now restart in Safe Mode, open Device Manager, expand all categories and start
removing devices.
You pretty much need to remove everything except the keyboard/mouse/monitor,
including all the items in the System section of Device Manager as well as in the
Other section, the USB Controllers section, all other drives and controllers,
display adapters, audio controllers, network adapter.

Click OK to close, then start in normal mode. Windows will begin detecting
hardware....when it finds the primary IDE controller and wants to reboot, say no
and
let it find the secondary IDE controller too, then reboot at that prompt.
The next restart should find the rest of the current hardware, while the remnants
of
the old hardware will no longer be present.

Be sure to then install the chipset drivers from the disc that came with your new
motherboard, reboot, then install the drivers for your display, audio and so
forth.

An alternative to deleting individual items in Safe Mode Device Manager, is to
open
the Registry Editor and delete the entire Enum key at this location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum
Then, shutdown, move the hard drive to the new system, and follow the suggestions
above.
The Safe Mode method is usually safer.

Thanks Glen. But as I read your suggestions, I have to wonder how
they apply to what I posted. The replacement of the motherboard and
CPU was done weeks before the problem I was trying to fix ever showed
its head. SO, maybe I didn't do the "replacement" or "upgrade"
properly, it's nice to know how to do it the next time (assuming there
will be a next time), but that doesn't fix the current problem. Does
it?

Olin

Apparently you missed this sentence in my original reply:

"If you did not do that before changing the hardware, you should do it now from Safe
Mode in Win98, as that is the OS giving you trouble."

I am describing what needs to be tried NOW.
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