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Can someone please help - A7V8X-X motherboard driver problems
Can someone please help me - I've been having computer problems now for
over a day and still haven't received help (let alone a response) from this newsgroup. My old motherboard died and so I bought a new one, the A7V8X-X, to replace it. While I was at it I had to buy DDR-RAM, and I replaced the CPU and video card. It's almost an entirely different computer (in the same case). Understandably, Windows won't boot - I just get a blue screen STOP error because the new hardware is too unfamiliar and it doesn't know what to do. What do I do at this point? I've been able to boot up the system with the XP CD and get into the DOS prompt recovery console. I have no clue what to do at that point, though. I can plug the hard drive into my working computer as a slave and get access to the WINDOWS partition. Unfortunately, the install CD that came with my motherboard contains only an .exe file that extracts to the current running WINDOWS installation: C:\WINDOWS, and won't let me pick an alternate path to install to. All of the VIA 4in1 drivers available for download online also come in an annoying self-installing executable which won't let me install them to the slave drive. I saw something about "SYSPREP" in my Google searches that tells Windows to check all new hardware on next boot-up. I can't find this program on any of my hard drives, however. Please, can somebody help me? I have this nice new hardware and no way to use it. Short of backing up my data and re-installing Windows, is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance for the help. -- Usenet is a strange reality where you see people beating up a patch of grass where nine years ago there used to be a horse. -Nuke |
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"Cyde Weys" schreef in bericht ... Can someone please help me - I've been having computer problems now for over a day and still haven't received help (let alone a response) from this newsgroup. My old motherboard died and so I bought a new one, the A7V8X-X, to replace it. While I was at it I had to buy DDR-RAM, and I replaced the CPU and video card. It's almost an entirely different computer (in the same case). Understandably, Windows won't boot - I just get a blue screen STOP error because the new hardware is too unfamiliar and it doesn't know what to do. What do I do at this point? I've been able to boot up the system with the XP CD and get into the DOS prompt recovery console. I have no clue what to do at that point, though. I can plug the hard drive into my working computer as a slave and get access to the WINDOWS partition. Unfortunately, the install CD that came with my motherboard contains only an .exe file that extracts to the current running WINDOWS installation: C:\WINDOWS, and won't let me pick an alternate path to install to. All of the VIA 4in1 drivers available for download online also come in an annoying self-installing executable which won't let me install them to the slave drive. I saw something about "SYSPREP" in my Google searches that tells Windows to check all new hardware on next boot-up. I can't find this program on any of my hard drives, however. Please, can somebody help me? I have this nice new hardware and no way to use it. Short of backing up my data and re-installing Windows, is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance for the help. -- Usenet is a strange reality where you see people beating up a patch of grass where nine years ago there used to be a horse. -Nuke *Windows XP isn't capable of recognising plug and play mobo's, you will need to reformat your HD and reinstall windows XP Let your pc boot from CDRom drive with the XP cd in it (you can change the boot order in the bios), then when the R for recovery comes up, you can type FORMAT C: when that is done you can reinstall xp and it will install the new hardware. Hope that helps Sus |
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Wheat Muncher enlightened us all with these words of wisdom:
Cyde Weys enlightened us all with these words of wisdom: I saw something about "SYSPREP" in my Google searches that tells Windows to check all new hardware on next boot-up. I can't find this program on any of my hard drives, however. Please, can somebody help me? I have this nice new hardware and no way to use it. Short of backing up my data and re-installing Windows, is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance for the help. My understanding of Sysprep is that it is used like a preloader. Larger companies use it when mass loading drives via a drive loader. It will install an image of an installation up to the point where it will reboot and look for the hardware to bind itself to. This way they are not forced to manually install a copy of windows on each seperate machine due to the diverse hardware combinations possible. I may be wrong on this, I have never actually used the utility, and if correct, it is a very simplified explanation at best. One alternative is to reset your drive back as the master, and boot from the windows cd. Perform an in place upgrade (reinstallation) of XP. This will replace the current system files that are causing this problem. you will need to reinstall any updates and service packs, as well as certain software (maybe) but all of your data will be left in tact. See the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article number for instructions on performing a reinstallation: 315341 or Q315341 Hope this helps. I should mention that this doesn't work 100% of the time, but it is the first avenue I would try. |
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Wheat Muncher wrote:
Wheat Muncher enlightened us all with these words of wisdom: Cyde Weys enlightened us all with these words of wisdom: I saw something about "SYSPREP" in my Google searches that tells Windows to check all new hardware on next boot-up. I can't find this program on any of my hard drives, however. Please, can somebody help me? I have this nice new hardware and no way to use it. Short of backing up my data and re-installing Windows, is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance for the help. My understanding of Sysprep is that it is used like a preloader. Larger companies use it when mass loading drives via a drive loader. It will install an image of an installation up to the point where it will reboot and look for the hardware to bind itself to. This way they are not forced to manually install a copy of windows on each seperate machine due to the diverse hardware combinations possible. I may be wrong on this, I have never actually used the utility, and if correct, it is a very simplified explanation at best. One alternative is to reset your drive back as the master, and boot from the windows cd. Perform an in place upgrade (reinstallation) of XP. This will replace the current system files that are causing this problem. you will need to reinstall any updates and service packs, as well as certain software (maybe) but all of your data will be left in tact. See the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article number for instructions on performing a reinstallation: 315341 or Q315341 Hope this helps. I should mention that this doesn't work 100% of the time, but it is the first avenue I would try. If it doesn't work, will my data still be on the hard drive or will I be SOL? I.e. should I backup my data before trying this? -- Usenet is a strange reality where you see people beating up a patch of grass where nine years ago there used to be a horse. -Nuke |
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If it doesn't work, will my data still be on the hard drive or will I be
SOL? I.e. should I backup my data before trying this? *Hook your HD to another pc,save your data, and reinstall XP , you wont have any troubles with hardware that way,lot of work maybe,,but the safest way to get your new stuff correctly installed. sus |
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Sus put me in my place by writing
If it doesn't work, will my data still be on the hard drive or will I be SOL? I.e. should I backup my data before trying this? *Hook your HD to another pc,save your data, and reinstall XP , you wont have any troubles with hardware that way,lot of work maybe,,but the safest way to get your new stuff correctly installed. sus Sus is 100% right. If you don;t mind the work, it is better to install a fresh load. I was just presenting a work around. -- Wheaty... Just one moment please...the mother ship is calling me on my microwave. |
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