changing motherboards w/ win98

[crazychicken]

when i change the motherboard with win98, windows booted again, installed all the new mobo resources, then when i restarted i get windows protection fault. is there anyway to reinstall windows w/o loosing registry? or "repair" windows?

lmk asap
thanks
david

 

[mikecel79]

Not with Win98. Have you tried booting into Safe Mode and see if you get that error? If you can you can backup the registry and then reinstall Win98. Then just restore the registry. This may not work either though cause it could restore your references to the older drivers. Generally swapping a motherboard with Win98 doesn't work too well.

Mike

 

[TheWart]

win98 doesn't really hav e abunch of settings that you need to keep anyway, just Format C: when you have the time. windows is already screwed up!

 

[rob123171]

if you really dont want to format here is one thing you can try just before you do the nasty deed
go get yourself the regcleaner by microsoft
get into your control panel (after booting into safe mode)
and under system\device manager find the icon called system devices
now when ya click the little + beside it you will see a whole bunch of stuff...remove them all, everything
then run that regcleaner you downloaded just for such an emergency
now reboot and have your win98 and new mobo cd (if it came with one) ready to go
if ya do it right you should have a new mobo installed without any conflicting remnants of you old mobo floating around and your reg will be all good and yer progs might even run the same 🙂
cheers

 

[Yvo]

There is simply no easy way to say it.....

Time to format. Whenever you do a complete mobo change its almost mandatory that you format.... WinXP does have a repair feature... but Win98... nope 🙁

If you have two partitions/drives then you can boot to dos and copy your email files, documents and what not over to the other drive.