Never ceases to amaze

[Steven Elling]

On Tuesday 08 April 2003 11:34, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> I've been thinking of throwing the AMD 900 motherboard that's down in the
> basement in there, but I don't have any idea what make or model the
> motherboard is, I have no specs and no drivers for it.  If I swap
> motherboards on a "live" W98 installation, it's going to have fits about
> the drivers, and it's unlikely I'd ever get it running right even if I
> did a clean installation.

Here's a trick I learned that has always worked well for me.  Boot with a 
Linux CD, wipe the drive and install Linux ;-)

Run regedit. Find the ENUM tree 
(`HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnum' I think) and delete it.  
Then replace your motherboard and boot.  Windows 95/98 will act as if it 
were just installed and detect everything in your system then install the 
drivers.

If your a little afraid to try this on your system, mirror your drive to 
another and try it with that drive.