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Hi, I upgraded my motherboard, CPU, and memory. Went from ECS K7S5A to ECS N2U400-A. Both have on board LAN. My old board had an SIS chipset and the new one is N-Videa. I read the various posts about uninstalling the old motherboard drivers but have been unable to do so. Particularly, in device manager my old SIS-900 ethernet driver will not allow me to uninstall it because it says it may be needed for booting. Additionally, system drivers for nic and agp remain and in event viewer are listed as errors in boot devices that fail to load. When I've downloaded the XP critical updates my system shuts down upon rebooting by itself and the only way I can get back online is to perform another repair installation. I figure it's most likely from driver conflicts associated with this. How can I remove all software and drivers from the old motherboard if I can't use device manager to do so and it's no longer appearing in add-remove hardware? Thanks
Hi, I upgraded my motherboard, CPU, and memory. Went from ECS K7S5A to ECS N2U400-A. Both have on board LAN. My old board had an SIS chipset and the new one is N-Videa. I read the various posts about uninstalling the old motherboard drivers but have been unable to do so. Particularly, in device manager my old SIS-900 ethernet driver will not allow me to uninstall it because it says it may be needed for booting. Additionally, system drivers for nic and agp remain and in event viewer are listed as errors in boot devices that fail to load. When I've downloaded the XP critical updates my system shuts down upon rebooting by itself and the only way I can get back online is to perform another repair installation. I figure it's most likely from driver conflicts associated with this. How can I remove all software and drivers from the old motherboard if I can't use device manager to do so and it's no longer appearing in add-remove hardware? Thanks