Re: Replacing motherboard

"Anthony W" wrote...
I replaced the motherboard in a computer with XP pro and it will boot into
safe mode but I'm unable to uninstall enough of the drivers to get it to
come up in normal mode to install the new drivers.

Is there an easy way around this or should I just back up the data and
reinstall XP?

Tony

I suggest you forgot a few steps.

First of all, when moving to a new motherboard, ALWAYS use a new hard drive.
Trust me, you'll want the original hard drive, with drivers, as a backup.

This is a Best Practices procedure.

Before proceeding, remove al unneeded PCI cards such as Ethernet, USB, etc.

1. Format the new hard drive using the NEW motherboard.
This is a crucial step. Different motherboard drive electronics have
different signal timing characteristics (in theory, this shouldn't matter,
In practice, as a hardware engineer I'm telling you it's very important).
ALWAYS format a new drive with the motherboard it will be used in. Failure
to do this can result in a hard drive crash - although the probability of
this happening if you are using NTFS is low, there is still a chance.

2. Using your original motherboard, clone your original drive to your new
drive. When done, put your original drive away as a safe backup.

3. Put your NEW drive in your ORIGINAL motherboard. Boot as an
Administrator.

4. Uninstall all disk utilities such as disk optimizers/defragmenters. You
should always do this on a newly cloned drive. Norton Speeddisk, for
example, stores sector information in the registry so that running Speeddisk
on a newly cloned drive can almost guarantee a drive crash.

Also, disable or uninstall any unneeded boot programs such as firewalls,
antivirus or antispyware programs, CD/DVD writer software, etc.

5. Re-Boot to the BIOS. Disable Plug-n-Play
a. Boot to Windows, Log in as an Administrator.
b. Go to Device manager, and delete EVERYTHING you see under 'System
Devices". This should uninstall everything that is motherboard related.
windows now has no motherboard drivers.
c. TURN THE COMPUTER OFF. Your drive now has no hardware drivers. In my
opinion, this makes it dangerous to do anything Windows related. However,
some have shut down Windows from this point with no problems.

6. Put the new drive in with the new motherboard. Boot immediately to BIOS,
make sure Play-n-Play is enabled, the time is properly set, the hard drive
is properly detected, and that all settings are "safe" (do not overclock,
etc).

7. Down a shot of tequila.

8. Reboot the computer into Windows XP as an administrator. If the BIOS is
set up properly, Windows will install all drivers. When Windows is done
installing drivers, reboot Windows whether asked to or not.

9. Go into Device Manager and make sure all looks good.

10. Go out and get drunk.






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