Previous Motherboard and System Driver Removal

[sirdirtclod]

Recently, I was required to replace my motherboard. I purchased and installed a ASUS A7N8X unit and am using the AMD Athlon(tm) processor with 512MB RAM from Kingston from the previous ASUS A7M266 motherboard.

This happens to be the third ASUS motherboard on this particular installation of WIN98SE and I am now aware that some of the problems I am having are related to the previous motherboard's system drivers, as I never removed them. For example, when I first installed the A7N8X unit, I had some boot problems with items loading in my startup group. Having resolved those issues I am now currently experiencing others I cannot resolve. The system boots and runs correctly except that my intergrated sound card does not work and Windows System Information is reporting the following problem under System Information\Components\Problem Devices:
ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
System
This Device Has a Problem: Code=9 (0x9)
Device failure: Try changing the driver for this device. If that doesn't work,
see your hardware documentation.
Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\enum\ACPI\*PNP0C0F\00000011
Alloc resources: None
Forced resources: None
Boot resources: None
Filtered resources: None
Basic resources: None
Driver: System\0009
Driver Date: 4-23-1999

Is there a an way to remove all the old motherboard drivers without a complete reinstall of WIN98SE? Maybe a piece of software that could do it. I have already ran "Regfix" and "Norton SystemWorks" without sucess and even deleted somethings from the window regestry that were obvious to me.

I thank you in advance for any assistance you could give in this matter.

 

[Jump1ng]

If you install the specific motherboard drivers for your motherboard it should replace any drivers that is incorrect.

Head over to nvidia.com and download the unified drivers for windows98/ME

Seems the latest version of Windows98/ME is this
Version: 4.27
Release Date: July 19, 2004

If you still having problems after doing this there is a registry key which holds all your current devices, if you delete that it will re-detect everything the next time you boot into windows. I have forgotten exactly which key it is and I dont have a 98 pc to look at currently. But if you need the information I will dig it out when I get home.

But first try the unified driver.

 

[sirdirtclod]

Actually I have done that a couple of times from the installation cd and from the website to no avail.

 

[edfair]

You remove the drivers from the OS by safe mode, regedit, HKeyLocalMachine and delete the enum key. Next reboot will reinstall the current stuff. If the current board has a setup CD that loads specific files it would be better to cancel any auto OS setup and defer to the board specific setup.

This doesn't do anything about any stuff loaded in the *.ini files.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[mattjurado]

You can also remove devices from device manager in safe mode, for devices that no longer exist.

Matt J.

Please always take the time to backup any and all data before performing any actions suggested for ANY problem, regardless of how minor a change it might seem. Also test the backup to make sure it is intact.

 

[micker377]

mattjurado:
Go into safe mode. Go to device manager. Delete any entries which are duplicated (these are called "ghost" entries). Be careful with "mouse" entries, save those for last, as you will have to close and reboot with alt-f4. You probably have multiple "ghost" entries for each mobo you used! I usually do everything except "system" the first time. Reboot and then do the "system" section.