[pchelpers] Re: Need a diagnosis

Hi Nigel,

Sunday, September 26, 2004, 7:40:57 AM, you wrote:

NH> There is a thing to look out for on the new board and that is the chipset.
NH> If you are going to have an AMD processor the majority of the time the
NH> chipset will be "VIA" and if you have a Pentium processor they will most
NH> likely be an "INTEL" chipset. As long as you know the type of chipset you
NH> have on your board what I have done in the past is remove the other chipset
NH> that is on the "SYSTEM" heading in the Device Manager and that should be ok
NH> and any other headings that relate to the old board. It might also be
NH> advantageous to do this in Safe Mode.

Yes, agreed; I hear that there's no problem with moving TO an Intel
chipset, but moving from Intel to another chipset is a no-go, unless
you remove the chipset-specific stuff first from device manager. Just
to be paranoid, I'd remove it first anyway.

Removing is done by looking under System Devices (you may also want to
check under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, USB adapters and, if you have
built-in video, Display Adapters) for any mention of the chipset name,
such as SIS, VIA, Intel, etc. For each device, select Update Driver,
Don't connect to Windows Update, Install from a specific location,
Don't search, then select the Standard driver. As an example, in the
case of the IDE driver, the standard driver is "Standard Dual Channel
PCI IDE Controller". Once all of the drivers have been changed, shut
down the system and swap the motherboard. Once the new board is in
place and you are in Windows again, go through and make sure that the
"Standard" drivers have all been replaced by the new ones.

Since, in this case, the motherboard is dead, making this change is
problematical. I'm sure that there's a way around this specific
problem, but I'm don't know a method at the moment. If I had to do
this, I would investigate what changes are made to the registry by
this process, and then hook up the drive in question to another
computer, and connect to the MACHINE registry file on that drive using
REG.EXE, and manually making the changes in question. I would expect
to spend at least an hour figuring out how to make this work, and
that's with me being reasonably familiar with working with the
registry.  Once I learn how to do it, though, I could probably
automate the process.

--Scott.


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