IanWorthington
Senior member
Hi --
I have a strange little problem...
I have a dozen machines, all based on the K7S5A motherboard, which I maintain by GHOSTing from a master machine. I'm still on Windows 98SE. Recently I built another couple and found that ECS have changed their sound chip, so I have to do a seperate install of that after each GHOST on those boxes...
Now I have found that the graphics card I have been using, the Visiontek GTS-V GeForce2 (a nice little card by the way!) is getting difficult to find, and my new machines will have to use something else.
Is there anyway I can avoid creating a growing mountain of little post-GHOST jobs? A number of possibilities occur to me:
1. Are all the nvidia geforce2 cards software compatable? Could I just replace one with another without Windows noticing or requiring a driver reinstall? (Bit of a long shot this one...)
2. What are the chances of loading on the master machine all the drivers for the various components (ie *all* the sound drivers, *all* the video drivers) and still having a machine which works afterwards? (As I understand it if I don't delete a device from the Device manager, and leave all the drivers, .inf files, etc etc in place, Windows will automatically load the right ones. But I think some cards may have device conflicts? I have heard tell of problems with ATI cards if the nvidia drivers are still in place...?)
3. Taking up something less dificult as a career. Lion taming sounds promising.
Any and all thoughts welcome.
Ian
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I have a strange little problem...
I have a dozen machines, all based on the K7S5A motherboard, which I maintain by GHOSTing from a master machine. I'm still on Windows 98SE. Recently I built another couple and found that ECS have changed their sound chip, so I have to do a seperate install of that after each GHOST on those boxes...
Now I have found that the graphics card I have been using, the Visiontek GTS-V GeForce2 (a nice little card by the way!) is getting difficult to find, and my new machines will have to use something else.
Is there anyway I can avoid creating a growing mountain of little post-GHOST jobs? A number of possibilities occur to me:
1. Are all the nvidia geforce2 cards software compatable? Could I just replace one with another without Windows noticing or requiring a driver reinstall? (Bit of a long shot this one...)
2. What are the chances of loading on the master machine all the drivers for the various components (ie *all* the sound drivers, *all* the video drivers) and still having a machine which works afterwards? (As I understand it if I don't delete a device from the Device manager, and leave all the drivers, .inf files, etc etc in place, Windows will automatically load the right ones. But I think some cards may have device conflicts? I have heard tell of problems with ATI cards if the nvidia drivers are still in place...?)
3. Taking up something less dificult as a career. Lion taming sounds promising.
Any and all thoughts welcome.
Ian
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