Originally posted by: jvwheel
Clint, Thanks very much again for your reply. I received my replacement board yesterday and just finished the installation. Everything went as you said it would so I was able to retreive my data and back up my files. I did a partial backup today using the backup program in XP but I wasn't sure how much I wanted to backup and carry over to a clean install on the intel controller. I didn't back up any of the windows folder. The system does not seem as stable as it was when I had it running with the old motherboard. It seems to take longer to open files and sometimes the mouse hesitates. I am locking up when running programs I know that I have run troble free before. I suspect that I did not have the setup exactly the same as when I removed the board and I have corrupted windows. It's better I just start over. I did run WMD on the system again and as you said it has a thousand errors on bank one even with the new MoBo. I talked to ASUS help and they said they didn't have any knowledge of the problem. I find that difficult to believe but there wasn't anything to be gained by pursuing it further with them. I'd thought I'd do this follow-up post to keep you informed and express mt graditude for you help. You and Dave R are the only persons to respond to my request for help even though I've posted on several forums. I do appreciate that. Best Regards, John
That's always a dilema! If the system is totally stable, then you can copy over everything. I use that integrated XP Native MSBackup for the first backup before I install Ghost. If you have your HD partitioned on the backup and try to restore to non part'd drive, that may mess things up. Otherwise I don't know why after restoring you'd have stability problems if everything was exactly the way it was before. At any rate, you can or did get your files/data back from the HD and can back those up then start over due to the instability.I did a partial backup today using the backup program in XP but I wasn't sure how much I wanted to backup and carry over to a clean install on the intel controller. I didn't back up any of the windows folder.
Asus is JERKS. They know damn good 'n well about that WMD problem and Promise controller! I even sent them the thread I started on the issue from this forum! I still have the emails and if I can find them, I'll paste it in a post.