If you remember a few days ago, my music computer had gone down and it
looked like the MB was loading down the +5SB. New motherboard arrived,
for Core2 Duo, there wasn't much choice, the new one is an Asrock with a
G31 chipset. The previous was a P45. Since I have a ton of audio apps
installed on this system (Complete 9 Ultimate alone takes 8 hours to
install, then 4 hours of updates), I wanted to try and save the install.
To be brief, letting the install CD try to repair the installation went
nowhere. Since it's a chipset difference, the install is find just
blue-screens on boot. Then I found a little trick on the web. There
apparent is a DOS command that will tell windows to install drivers.
You put all the new drivers on a CD, boot to the install DVD, after it
finds the install location and fails to find a problem, you open up a
command windows and do this (note that the drive letters, E & F are for
where my Windows installation and DVD drive were located on my system,
YMMV): dism /image:E:\ /add-driver /Driver:F:\ /recurse
After this, Windows booted from HD and proceeded to install drivers. It
took a couple of reboots and so far everything is back to 'normal'. I
need to check and see if every device is active. I had to reactivate
windows (It gave me only 3 days!), but the new automated phone system
was quick and easy. Obviously it refused to activate automatically
online, it threw out a security error.
I really did not have a big thing against a full reinstall. It would
take a couple of days to finish, but it really cool to do something like
this to 'fool' windows.
Steve
