Re: XP In-Place Upgrade, Repair, or some other trick? (replaced motherboard)

From: Ron Martell (ron_at_onlinehelp.bc.ca)
Date: 05/12/04

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    v8625@hotmail.com (v8625) wrote:

    >I put the latest BIOS as soon as I replaced the board. Current version
    >is 1.23 (for board revision 2.0), which updates SATA BIOS to v4.2.47.
    >So everthying was up-to-date.
    >Regards.

    So no fix that way.

    Try booting the computer into Safe Mode.and then go into Device
    Manager.

    Check the entries in the hard disk controllers category and uninstall
    all of them. Also uninstall all of the entries in the "other devices"
    category.

    Then shut down and restart and see if it will detect the controller
    and load the proper drivers.

    Sometimes a device is not fully installed and therefore does not show
    up in the Device Manager when the computer is running in normal mode.
    However these items do show up in Safe Mode.

    Good luck

    Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada 

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