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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard Goodman who wrote (9446)	11/28/1999 12:28:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

You can re-install Windows without needing to reformat and start from scratch. Does the new MB have the same chipset? If not, you can expect trouble. Substituting a different motherboard into a running system is a gamble, with the odds against you. I would try either re-installing Win95 OSR2 on top of the current installation without reformatting or repartioning (it should leave the application part of your registry alone, or most of it, so you shouldn't have to re-install applications) or better yet upgrading to Win98 second edition, which seems to be better at recognizing & adapting to a variety of hardware configurations. I know there are people who are comfortable with Windows 95, but IMHO Win98 has never been anything but a partially-debugged Windows 95. I haven't encountered any cases where it was wrong to upgrade to Win98, but I have encountered many cases where overlaying Win95 with Win98 made problems go away. Regards, --QwikSand EDIT: I'm assuming the problem isn't something obvious like not having an IDE controller enabled in the BIOS, or some other problem with new BIOS settings not matching the old.