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Re: New mother board
"Andrew McLaren" <andrew@fakeaddress.com> wrote in message
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> "Tony" <ballatileandrenovation@bellnet.ca> wrote ...
>>I have installed a new mother board (system board) and CPU now vista does
>>not start. Even safe mode does not work.
>> Old board was flakey and I put a new one New one is a DFI the old one
>> Systec board. Do I have to reinstall.
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> Reinstalling Vista from scratch is certainly the most reliable approach.
>
> When you replace the motherboard, you are effectively replacing the whole
> computer (especially these days, when so many system components are
> integrated onto the motherboard). Even though various hardware interfaces
> are supposedly standard - maybe you have a SATA hard disk, for example,
> and SATA is SATA, right? - but the hard disk controller, although a
> standard SATA device, will probably have a different PnP Identifier from
> the controller on the old motherboard. If the PnP identifiers don't match,
> you'll get a STOP 0x7B blue screen when you try to boot. And so on. All
> the very careful and precise hardware detection which Vista does when you
> first install it, you will be effectively throwing away, if you don't
> re-install.
>
>
> Basically, the motherboard and CPU are not *fungible* components - unlike
> the keyboard, case, power supply etc.
>
> Some folks might respond and suggest ways to hack your existing Vista
> installation back into life. This is sometimes possible. But it is likely
> to be a less reliable solution in the long run - you'll end up with a
> bunch of left-over dead-end device drivers hanging around, registry crud,
> occasional mysterious blue screens, etc, etc. If you really, *really* need
> to resurrect your existing installation, boot from the Vista DVD, and then
> do an in-place "upgrade" of your existing installation. This will preserve
> your user data and existing applications. It will repeat the hardware
> detection and append the necessary drivers, PnP definitions etc to make
> the system bootable.
>
> Alternatively and preferably: boot from the Vista DVD, go to a Command
> Prompt in the repair console, and back-up your user data to a safe
> location. Then reformat the system drive, and re-install Vista from
> scratch.
>
> There's a certain element of opinion and risk assessment here; some might
> disagree with me. But I'm pretty sure this is the best advice for you.
> It's what I always do myself, when I replace a motherboard.
Hi Andrew
What is needed is a different Hardware Abstraction Layer. If the
replacement motherboard did not use a different chipset, this would most
probably not be necessary.
I have transferred OS installations from one computer to another with
totally different hardware using Acronis TrueImage with Universal Restore.
It resets the HAL in the process. I have also used it to turn OS
installations into VirtualPC virtual machines.
I would think that just changing the HAL would work fine. This can also be
done using a repair installation in XP (not sure about Vista's Recovery
Environment) and there is also a way of manually resetting the HAL that you
can Google for.
ss.
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