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I guess I need a new MOtherboard and needless to say I'm
quite the novice. It would be nice if I could use all the same cards. How do I find out what type of board this is? |
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-----Original Message----- I guess I need a new MOtherboard and needless to say I'm quite the novice. It would be nice if I could use all the same cards. How do I find out what type of board this is? The only thing I can find on it is 686 AMI BIOS 1999 B192 ? . |
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Try Everest Hone edition. It is free
http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...ng=en&pageid=1 or Belarc Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html -- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP www.hildrum.com "Beau" wrote in message ... I guess I need a new MOtherboard and needless to say I'm quite the novice. It would be nice if I could use all the same cards. How do I find out what type of board this is? |
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Well John that's beautiful and I have everest but the
problem is that I can't get it to boot up because it's not recognizing any drives. I virtially know nothing about motherboards that's why I'm here. I can get into my cmos but that's about it, so I know that my processor is an AMD K7, Duron, 1200 MHZ. But that doesn't tell me what kind of Motherboard it is. I have no clue what I'm doing here and am getting pretty frustrated. Do I even need a new Motherboard? Eye yi yi. I just want to get this damn thing running without spending a fortune and at the same time learn about this hardware stuff! I just hate not knowing -----Original Message----- Try Everest Hone edition. It is free http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php? pid=1&lang=en&pageid=1 or Belarc Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html -- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP www.hildrum.com "Beau" wrote in message ... I guess I need a new MOtherboard and needless to say I'm quite the novice. It would be nice if I could use all the same cards. How do I find out what type of board this is? . |
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Is bios recognizing the drives ?? Do they show up when you enter Bios ??
Try a boot disk (The ERD disk or the www.bootdisk.com disk )and boot it. Then at the a: prompt type fdisk /status a see what it says. PS: If you have a Fry's close by then you can get some deals these days. -- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP www.hildrum.com "Beau" wrote in message ... Well John that's beautiful and I have everest but the problem is that I can't get it to boot up because it's not recognizing any drives. I virtially know nothing about motherboards that's why I'm here. I can get into my cmos but that's about it, so I know that my processor is an AMD K7, Duron, 1200 MHZ. But that doesn't tell me what kind of Motherboard it is. I have no clue what I'm doing here and am getting pretty frustrated. Do I even need a new Motherboard? Eye yi yi. I just want to get this damn thing running without spending a fortune and at the same time learn about this hardware stuff! I just hate not knowing -----Original Message----- Try Everest Hone edition. It is free http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php? pid=1&lang=en&pageid=1 or Belarc Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html -- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP www.hildrum.com "Beau" wrote in message ... I guess I need a new MOtherboard and needless to say I'm quite the novice. It would be nice if I could use all the same cards. How do I find out what type of board this is? . |
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If you install a new m/b, this may come in handy:
New M/B installation You will likely need to reinstall Windows over itself after swapping motherboards, especially if this is a major change in hardware (P3 to Athlon, Celeron to P4, etc) due to a special driver file named "VMM32.VXD". This file is custom-built when you install Windows, has the CPU and motherboard-level drivers in it, and can only be rebuilt by reinstalling Windows. Your previously-installed software and documents should survive the reinstall OK but you'll need to reinstall all Windows updates again. Also, if you have installed Windows Media Player Beta 9, you'll need to take some special precautions before reinstalling - let me know if that's the case. -- Richard G. Harper (MVP Win9x 1/07/2003 ------ Before you reinstall, assuming you have a retail Windows (9X) disc, do this: 1. Make a bootable floppy disk and make sure you can boot from it and see your Windows CD-ROM disc with it. 2. Before you shut down Windows to replace your hardware, use SCANREGW.EXE to make a backup copy of the Registry, then delete the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum branch of the Registry. This removes all hardware data from the Registry. 3. Restart in MS-DOS Mode, find the file VMM32.VXD in the \Windows\System directory and rename it to VMM32.OLD 4. Finally, shut down, boot with the floppy, reinstall Windows. -- Richard G. Harper (MVP MPS-D) -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Beau" wrote in message ... Well John that's beautiful and I have everest but the problem is that I can't get it to boot up because it's not recognizing any drives. I virtially know nothing about motherboards that's why I'm here. I can get into my cmos but that's about it, so I know that my processor is an AMD K7, Duron, 1200 MHZ. But that doesn't tell me what kind of Motherboard it is. I have no clue what I'm doing here and am getting pretty frustrated. Do I even need a new Motherboard? Eye yi yi. I just want to get this damn thing running without spending a fortune and at the same time learn about this hardware stuff! I just hate not knowing -----Original Message----- Try Everest Hone edition. It is free http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php? pid=1&lang=en&pageid=1 or Belarc Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html -- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP www.hildrum.com "Beau" wrote in message ... I guess I need a new MOtherboard and needless to say I'm quite the novice. It would be nice if I could use all the same cards. How do I find out what type of board this is? . |
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