I have had this problem on various machines.
Windows plug and play is having trouble
with the enumeration of your hardware.
It is even worse if the hardware is "close"
but not close enough to know it is wrong.
Sometimes you can overcome it, and lots
of times you can not.
If you have a simple system, I agree with
Chuck - generally.
You can spend more time trying to
patch it up than starting from scratch.

If your system has lots of data and not too much clutter,
you could always try one of the less aggressive ways
of re-installing Windows, like on top of itself, or
re-naming the Windows directory and doing a new
default install... Either of these has risks, and be sure
to have your driver disks and programs ready just in case
for "over the top" and for sure with a re-name of Windows.
If you are only getting to safe mode now, you certainly
need to try something!         Rick Glazier

----- Original Message -----
From: "joseph marty" <[log in to unmask]>
> I replaced an Asus P3v4X with a Tyan Trinity 400 S1854 mobo because the
Asus passed away.  On first boot it immediately installed doubles of almost
everything.  In safe mode, device manager, hard disk controllers, I have two
primary IDE and two secondary IDE channels (in Windows it only shows one of
each).  I have tried to delete them so that Windows could correctly
reinstall one of each...

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