You're right, I should have included more detail.  The major devices to
delete from the Device Manager are those that have device drivers
associated with them and are associated with the motherboard.  Most of
items under System do not have drivers.  Especially important are things
like disk controllers, ports, any built in devices on either new or old
motherboard such as video/sound/SCSII.   Be sure to have your Win95 CD's
handy (or the Win95 install files in a subdirectory on your hard drive).

An alternate that I have seen used is just a re-install of Windows 95 over
the old installation (without fdisk/format) after replacing motherboard.
This will establish the correct drivers also and retain your data.


At 10/13/98 12:17 PM , Ben Moore wrote:
>I'm about to replace my motherboard.  When you say delete all device
>drivers, exactly what do you mean.  I assume it's cd, disk drives, video,
>sound, etc but what about all the other stuff in device manager like the
>system devices tab? Could you go into a little more detail on the procedure
>you follow.

> Doug Simmons wrote:
>>I have replaced motherboards and processors many times and have not lost
>>data yet..... But before doing so always backup data. My usual
>>process in a nutshell for Win 95 is *after* backup, replace hardware, and
>>then boot into Win 95 safe mode, delete all device drivers, reboot and
>>reinstall all drivers for the new motherboard and other installed devices
>>(one at a time if possible).  This will require several re-boots but
>>has worked for me so far.


Doug Simmons
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