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Post by Bubbles_Few on Jul 13, 2008 16:22:05 GMT -8
Hi guys.
I've been waiting for a friend to put together my quasi new machine (new MB, RAM and chip), but he's so busy it's taking too long. I'm super busy too and can't afford for the machine to be down long, but at the same time I'm dying to use this new equipment to help me shoot even more of you in COD4! So I'm considering tackling it myself. But I have some questions.
1) If I put in the new MB and chip, then I need to reinstall Windows, right?
2) If I do have to reinstall Windows, does that mean reinstalling everything else too? (Thunderbird, Firefox, Adobe, Office Pro etc. etc. etc.)
Any advice on these questions or on ones I'm too ignorant to know to ask is welcome.
Thanks bro's.
peace. bubs
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Post by lilguy on Jul 13, 2008 16:43:09 GMT -8
I googled your question and copied this from the forums "scapegoat 04-22-2003, 11:48 PM Heres a quick short cut, If you go into your registery And delete the ENUM key (the entire one) shut down , change hardware, and restart, XP should detect your new hardware without a format or a reregister with microsoft www.pimprig.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=43049You are probably to late since you already moved it. But for future refrence this works with most major hardware changes This will reqires some extra reboots and driver installs but should work fine " I hate startin over too much crap As far as the hardware swap I'd wait for help if you've never done it.....
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Post by KAZ_Few on Jul 13, 2008 20:02:34 GMT -8
I just put together a new rig a couple of months ago and really ?? reloading wasn't that bad plus now I have all the newest versions and most up to date drivers. all in all I think it only took five beer and three shots and I was finished and ya the rig was finished too
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Post by Bubbles_Few on Jul 14, 2008 15:47:43 GMT -8
Thanks guys. Yeah, a friend said last night that I can just delete some drivers and it'll look for new ones when it spots the hardware. I tried that link, but I'm getting nothing. Any additional advice is welcome.
peace. bubs
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Post by Bubbles_Few on Aug 3, 2008 16:27:58 GMT -8
Still getting nothing on that link Lilguy. If you have any other pointers on how to find that info, I'm hoping to do the change-over this coming week and I'd like to be as informed as possible. Thanks.
peace. bubs
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Post by Filthy_Few ♂ on Aug 3, 2008 22:34:36 GMT -8
Molo, that is a myth.
Windows ALWAYS enumerates, detects, and selects all drivers on EVERY boot, and drivers for hardware no longer present will not be loaded, whether the Enum key is deleted or not.
(The only exception would be legacy-style drivers for ISA, non-PnPISA devices that are not among the well-known legacy device set... really ancient creaky stuff.)
The only thing the stuff under the Enum key does is to allow the system to remember hardware it's seen before, so you don't have to go through the "found new hardware" dialog for every device on every boot.
So let's see: If you don't delete the Enum key...
- hardware on the new system that has the exact same device ID as hardware on the old system, will have the same drivers loaded - and that's what you want.
- hardware on the old system that doesn't exist on the new system: drivers will not be loaded because the hardware isn't detected, whether you delete the Enum key or not.
- hardware on the new system that wasn't present on the old one, obviously, it will go through the "found new hardware" dialogs.
Net effect of deleting Enum key: You get to go through a lot more "found new device" dialogs than you need to.
Deleting the Enum key is a bit of "voodoo" that seems to work in some cases. The truth is that in those cases the mobo change would have worked without it.
As to whether or not you actually CAN delete it, that depends on whether any handles are open to it or to any of its subkeys. You can delete it sometimes, not others. But I see no point in deleting it, so I wouldn't worry about when it's possible to do so.
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Post by Bubbles_Few on Aug 9, 2008 17:58:09 GMT -8
So does this mean I have to reload everything as I originally thought I might, or is there a way to install a new MB, RAM and chip and not delete everything off my HD?
peace. bubs
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