Re: motherboard swap

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"steveisbel" <steveisbel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7BC0376F-3599-4AE3-B26C-AE2773D76FAA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Any body been able to keep vista intact through a mother board swap. Might
have to switch from amd based board to intel based board.
I have done xp in the past with some registry hacks that microsoft had
posted on their site once but they claimed they did not recommend. They
worked does anyone know if the same hacks could be applied to a vista
registry with drivers for new board moved over in correct directory.
Basically what I am asking can the hard drive controllers be reinitalized.


Click the Start Orb and type msconfig in Start/Search and hit Enter. On the Boot tab see if you have a checkbox for Nodetect. If so, check it, click Apply and then OK. After the swap and Windows comes up run the driver installations from the cd with the mobo then call up msconfig and uncheck the box. Windows should then start detecting some additional devices and installing drivers. The catch is that you may not have the checkbox. A couple of my boxes don't.

Are you running an x86 or x64 version of Vista?

x64 Vista is pretty flexible. There is only the one ACPI x64 hal for all hardware, regardless of Intel, AMD, or whatever. I don't use x86 Vista so I can't comment on x86.

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