Changing motherboard Win98SE

[Guest RMD]

Hi All,

 

I managed to turn up a used computer for $20 which contained a

suitable 800MHz Celeron board, which I could use to replace my dud

motherboard.

 

I've never replaced a motherboard before, so just doing it was of

interest to me. I wanted to boot up the original hard drive with all

applications installed and get it to work with the the new

motherboard.

 

I put an old installation hard drive into the $20 computer so I could

experiment - I got some good stuff off the internet of "how-to" do it.

I had Acronis True Image at the ready too, with existing backups of

the system.

 

I did alright on the motherboard, graphics, in the transfer to the new

motherboard etc, but the audio just plain refused to work. I

eventually made the drive un-bootable trying to fix this audio sound

card problem. I had to True Image recover the drive.

 

The method I finally found worked best was to:

 

(1) Do a repair-install of Win98SE. This got most of the motherboard

right including rather crucially the CDROM. Probably the best first

step with any OS if you can do this.

 

(2) Install the motherboard chipset drivers and get them right.

 

(3) Install the Graphics Driver.

 

(4) Un-install any audio sound card stuff in Add/Remove Programs.

 

(5) Go into Safe mode and delete anything to do with the old sound

card in Device Manager.

 

(6) Install the sound card drivers.

 

It ought to all work now. Any problems then try re-installing drivers.

 

Might be useful to someone. :)

 

Ross