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[Dragnov]

HELP!!! My bird can't fly!!! Bought an Asus A7V133 and a TBIRD 1 ghz. I replaced the old mobo and intel processor for these, as well as installed a 300w power supply. After removing all my cards, cables, etc, I finally installed the mobo and processor. I attached the Taisol on it, and it's running around 45 degrees according to the bios. (On the process of getting some AS.) Problem is now, it won't freakin load windows!!! It gets to the GUI (Win98), loads up the task bar, background, icons, etc... and then *crash*. It's my first time working w/ an AMD system but I know everything is isntalled properly and the board and processor are in perfect working condition. I thought it might be an IRQ conflict but I removed all my cards which solved nothing. Someone tell me whats wrong?

Asus A7V133
Athlon Thunderbird 1ghz (200mhz bus)
Taisol Heatsink/Fan
Radeon 64
WD 30gig HDD

Thats the only things attached... and it still wont boot.

New problem... please read my last post...

 

[Vrangel]

Reinstall Windows.

 

[Nutdotnet]

That was what I was going to say. Format and Reinstall.

 

[Dragnov]

Noooooooooooooo! :Q Windows was working perfectly fine before. Don't want to format because got several stuff I want/need to keep. It's a last resort. I mean, I shouldn't have to if it was working properly before. Only a changed mobo and processor, so I'm guessing its some kind of driver issue?

 

[Qacer]

I'm just curious. Doesn't Windows remember the settings from the previous mobo? From my experience, if I move devices to other slots, Windows will try to re-detect the new device and re-install drivers. But at times it doesn't even install the drivers correctly -- for example, my Linksys network card. So I'm guessing whatever drivers Windows installed for your previous mobo, it still thinks that it applies to the new mobo. I'm no expert, but I would have to agree about re-installing Windows.

 

[Paulson]

Exactly.

You can't just change a mobo and processor and think everything's going to be the same.

My guess is you have some conflicting drivers or something.

 

[Dragnov]

Hehe, well of course I didn't expect everything to come out handy dandy. But I never expected that I would be FORCED to format (well at least not yet). Bahh, okay well guess it's time to start backing up... Not one of the most beautiful things to do, as now I have to do it under safe mode. My punishment.

 

[Rand]

When making that significant of a change it isnt at all surprising that Win9X won't boot up.

 

[Bleep]

If you still have the old mb put it back in the system. Go to device manager and delete all the device drivers. Go into window's folders and delete tree. Shut machine down change the MB and Processor reboot this may help. You may have to reinstall windows but a format probably not necessary.
Good Luck
Bleep

 

[Bcomp]

If you can go into safe mode you will be OK. Just remove every thing from Device manager in safe mode, then search in the registry for child000. Delete the child headings under the MF tree. This will get rid of the old IDE controller drivers. Then reboot in regular mode and start redetecting. It works best if you were smart enough to have the Cabs on you HD.
Ron

 

[Dragnov]

Bah! Already began formatting... oh well guess it was time for one anyways. How come it says my WD Slave drive is detected bad by the S.M.A.R.T feature? It says that Drive failur is immenent, and to backup data immediately? I've been using this forever now w/o a problem on my old mobo. No bad sectors or anything... Whats up w/ this?

 

[Johnnie]

disable smart..

 

[slatt01]

Dont delete anything in safe mode.

Go into safe mode and run REGEDIT.

Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and expand.

Delete ENUM key.

Close REGEDIT and reboot.

All the hardware will be re-detected so make sure that any device drivers and Win98 directory are on the HDD.

After its rebooted a few times you will have to delete a few items, graphics keyboard and DMA controller, as they are detected more than once. Delete duplicated items and let them be re-detected.

Job done. This works will any hardware.

 

[Barefoot]

Well...it appears to be too late for this...but all you ever had to do was pop your Windows98 CD in and just re-install Windows over your current installation. It reloads and reconfigures all of your drivers and such for your new hardware, and you don't lose a bit of data. You don't need to worry about any registry keys or any of that Jazz. Next time, that's what you do. Trust me, I've done it before. SOOOOO much simpler and safer.

 

[etech]

Sort of OT, but this is one reason why I have my harddrive partitioned. I can format C: drive and all of my data and programs are still on my other partitions.

You will have to reinstall your programs, but a clean install may prevent some problems.

If you install say Word into the same directory all of your documents will still be there.

Gr1mL0cK, I would go get the WD diagnostics and run them on your harddrive. It takes awhile but better to be safe then to lose data.

 

[AKA]

S.M.A.R.T.