Alright, so i recently decided to replace my MSI k9AG Neo2-digital with the Biostar tForce 590.
Open it up, eveything, everything goes right. I go through installing the new software for Biostar and removing the MSI software that I can find using add/remove programs. But my wireless internet card doesn't work properly now, and my graphics card is giving me 'new hardware found' messages. Not to mention the fact that the taskbar announcing "Western Digital 250GB hard drive can now be safely removed!" does not suit my fancy.
I managed to get the wireless card to at least be recognized by switching it into the #2 PCI slot rather than the #1, which was an aggravation in and of itself, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why Windows doesn't like my graphics card drivers when they came off of my eVGA CD. And I was really looking forward to updating my drivers to the new drivers that nVidia released for WHQL certification yesterday.
I'm also experiencing some weird issues with my audio drivers, moving from the Realtek ALC888 to the ALC883 on the Biostar board. It will recognize when I insert a jack, but then go into some sort of weird feedback loop where I'll select what I had put into the jack and then it will ask again what I had put into the jack.
At least the USB ports are finally working. Having had an MSI board for my Intel 478-based machine earlier and now my new AMD machine, my Razer Copperhead mouse was not properly recognized on Windows start. With the nVidia USB drivers, that issue, at least, seems to have corrected itself.
In any event, any advice on what I may have done wrong would be most appreciated, as well as suggestions on how to remove the remnants of my old motherboard.
P.S. The Antec 900 case is made to withstand a nuclear explosion... without its drives properly installed. Thankfully, the side panel on the 900 is different than the motherboard tray (though the tray still isn't removable, unfortunately). But, honestly... that hard-drive mounting mechanism is some sick person's idea of a joke, isn't it? 30 dollar Coolermaster cases have better mounting mechanisms, and they did 5 years ago, not to mention the fact that my Antec power supply nearly did not fit in my Antec case.
And then, of course, I got to talk to a recording on the phone to reactivate my Windows because "my machine has changed more than they wanted since the last time I activated Windows" and my internet wasn't working because of the lack of a recognized wireless card and the lack of the WEP key from my router (the internet is currently being controlled by a slightly despotic power-monger who is fairly unlikely to provide me with the current WEP key at 2:30AM)
All in all, it was an exciting time.
Open it up, eveything, everything goes right. I go through installing the new software for Biostar and removing the MSI software that I can find using add/remove programs. But my wireless internet card doesn't work properly now, and my graphics card is giving me 'new hardware found' messages. Not to mention the fact that the taskbar announcing "Western Digital 250GB hard drive can now be safely removed!" does not suit my fancy.
I managed to get the wireless card to at least be recognized by switching it into the #2 PCI slot rather than the #1, which was an aggravation in and of itself, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why Windows doesn't like my graphics card drivers when they came off of my eVGA CD. And I was really looking forward to updating my drivers to the new drivers that nVidia released for WHQL certification yesterday.
I'm also experiencing some weird issues with my audio drivers, moving from the Realtek ALC888 to the ALC883 on the Biostar board. It will recognize when I insert a jack, but then go into some sort of weird feedback loop where I'll select what I had put into the jack and then it will ask again what I had put into the jack.
At least the USB ports are finally working. Having had an MSI board for my Intel 478-based machine earlier and now my new AMD machine, my Razer Copperhead mouse was not properly recognized on Windows start. With the nVidia USB drivers, that issue, at least, seems to have corrected itself.
In any event, any advice on what I may have done wrong would be most appreciated, as well as suggestions on how to remove the remnants of my old motherboard.
P.S. The Antec 900 case is made to withstand a nuclear explosion... without its drives properly installed. Thankfully, the side panel on the 900 is different than the motherboard tray (though the tray still isn't removable, unfortunately). But, honestly... that hard-drive mounting mechanism is some sick person's idea of a joke, isn't it? 30 dollar Coolermaster cases have better mounting mechanisms, and they did 5 years ago, not to mention the fact that my Antec power supply nearly did not fit in my Antec case.
And then, of course, I got to talk to a recording on the phone to reactivate my Windows because "my machine has changed more than they wanted since the last time I activated Windows" and my internet wasn't working because of the lack of a recognized wireless card and the lack of the WEP key from my router (the internet is currently being controlled by a slightly despotic power-monger who is fairly unlikely to provide me with the current WEP key at 2:30AM)
All in all, it was an exciting time.
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