Replace motherboard, without having to do an inplace upgrade of XP.
This is something that has shite-ed me for quite while now, Every time I replace motherboards I get a BSOD boot screen and the computer wont boot, requireing a reinstall XP repair installation that usually takes 1/2 hour at best.
I'm guess its something to do with specific IDE drivers or what not that are different on the motheboards being swaped.
Is there a simple way to strip the device manager settings/registry to a default state that would allow a new motherboard to be configured with out the need for the XP reinstall. I don't care that I will get a product activation request again, its the time waste of the reinstall thats turning my hair grey.
I'm guess its something to do with specific IDE drivers or what not that are different on the motheboards being swaped.
Is there a simple way to strip the device manager settings/registry to a default state that would allow a new motherboard to be configured with out the need for the XP reinstall. I don't care that I will get a product activation request again, its the time waste of the reinstall thats turning my hair grey.
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Looks like windows xp should be able to recognise the change in motherboard and would be requesting drivers from you if there are certain devices for which it doesnot have built in drivers..
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Looks like windows xp should be able to recognise the change in motherboard and would be requesting drivers from you if there are certain devices for which it doesnot have built in drivers..
Check my links
>>I guess to put it more plainly, I would like the same system windows98 has,
could never happen, windows 98 was good at this - but all new OS's are based on NT4 which wasnt, windows 98 ran fundementally different from modern OS's while operate on top of a theoretical HAL Hardware Extraction Layer, in this case it gets in the way, but on the whole its a better system :(
could never happen, windows 98 was good at this - but all new OS's are based on NT4 which wasnt, windows 98 ran fundementally different from modern OS's while operate on top of a theoretical HAL Hardware Extraction Layer, in this case it gets in the way, but on the whole its a better system :(
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Thanks guys, not the answer I wanted, but helped me consided other methods I had overlooked. :)
cheers,
cheers,
ThanQ
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1: replace the main board,
2: put the new mainboard driver disk in the drive , and let the OS detect all the new hardware with maytbe a couple of restarts. :)