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Good idea to format and start fresh when installing new mobo?

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Chewy

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Ok, here's the deal:

Basically, if you replace a mobo with another one, should you reformat the HD and install all the crap and stuff cleanly?

I just took out my mobo (Soyo 6BA+IV) and installed the Abit BE6-2) - if you guys read some of my old posts, you'll know why I wanted to get a new mobo...

Anyway, so i took out the Soyo and put in the Abit and fired up the comp...it looked for and installed all the new hardware it found and etc. blah blah....however, it froze at a bunch of places, especially when trying to install the sb live! driver. The comp would hang and end up in NOT RESPONDING mode. So, I have no choice but to reboot.

So everytime I boot up w/ the card, it says that the "SB Live IRQ is conflicting with the PCI IRQ"...what can I do about this? I tried moving the card to another slot, but that doesn't do anything except give me a lovely "windows protection error" - message I ALWAYS get...so, the only time I can really boot up without problems is when I take the card out...

Is it possible to have fried the card? (doubtful - knock on wood)...
 
It is always a good idea to do a clean install of an OS. You will have less problems from old driver lingering causing problems, locks ups, etc.
 
You can try booting up in safe mode and deleting EVERYTHING in your device manager and then booting back up in normal mode and letting it refind everthing.
 
I always do a clean install when I add hardware such as mobos, vid-cards and so forth, but not when I install a new HD or CD-R.

AoD 😉
 


<< I always do a clean install when I add hardware such as mobos, vid-cards and so forth, but not when I install a new HD or CD-R. >>



Same here. 😉
 
Hey, Chewy. I would agree with these folks that a format and reinstall is a real good idea with a new mobo, especially if you've been having problems up to that point.

I haven't read your old posts, so forgive me if I suggest some things that don't apply. Is this your first setup with a Coppermine processor? If so, make sure you get the very latest SBLive drivers, or you'll get a BSOD on bootup every time. And it's been said to death, but be sure to disable SBLive emulation, and set it to allow LPT interrupt sharing, generally IRQ 7, and you may avoid a lot of conflicts.

If doing some of this helps, great, but I might still bite the bullet and clean your system out. it can't hurt (backup!), and will probably help a lot of things.

Good Luck!
 
Alright, I guess I'll just go and backup eveything now and format and stuff 🙂

Tuhran, I have no clue how you would &quot;disable SBLive emulation, and set it to allow interrupt sharing, generally IRQ 7&quot; (when i had my previous mobo, I just popped it in and loaded it up and everythign was fine..

Alright, I guess I'll go do the deed now 🙂 and 🙁
 
great...

I don't get this...my comp won't boot from the cd-rom, so I can't freakin' install windows...

It detects my Plextor 8432A and Pioneer 105S totally fine (they're on the secondary IDE port - IDE 2 ... plextor is master, and pioneer is slave...

My Quantum Fireball LS is on primary IDE 1. I don't know why in hell the stupid cd-rom(s) dont' boot my cd...it says it tries to boot from ATAPI CD-ROM, but it fails...

any thoughts?
 
i'm not an expert or anything, but did you make sure you went to your bios setting and allow it to be bootable from cd?

your cdrom has to support this feature first too as well... if that fails, then just install the dos drivers for the cdrom.

edit - the system detecting your cdroms/hd's correctly in POST doesnt necessarily mean that they are configured properly.....
 
well, it's possible that my win98 cd just isn't bootable...I thought it was...anyway, I just made up a generic boot disk w/ my Pioneer drivers and it worked like that...gotta find a bootable cd to test it...

The only thing now is I can't get the ATA/66 stuff to work at all...anytime I install the HPT366 or 370 drivers, my comp locks up just as it loads windows...it gets to the windows background, the mouse pointer has the little hourglass next to it and then it just stops there...I thought this version of the abit mobo was supposed to be easy in setting this crap up 🙂

Yes, my HD IS 66 compatiable (quantum fireball ls) - I've had it running at 66 w/ my soyo mobo...but even so, I can't get it to run at 33...the burst speed is at a lovely 7.9ms 🙁 any thoughts?
 
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