DMA prob in win98

[Rob B]

Hi,
i have just installed a tomato TX98 ... had win98 running on the old board, so i went into device manager (in safe mode) and removed the lot... win98 installed the new board ok but now i have 2 direct memory access controllers installed under sytem devices and one of them has a ! next to it ... if i remove it, it just gets replaced next time i start up !!!!

thanks in advance
Rob

[ENVY]

Have you tried removing them both?

[raffi]

Hey rod, you know what, unfortuneately, I have never heard of anyone doing this successfully, replacing a board and keeping the old os, is unheard of and unlikely, under any win9x. If you haev the files backed up, it would seem like a clean install is the way to go.........

[jmatrix]

Just built a new system for a friend this weekend, His old system was a Dell pentium 90. He had two hard drive that were loaded with os's(Win 3.1 & Win98) and programs that he did not want to lose. First we carefully removed all unnecesary devices from the device manager and removed all programs that launched at boot such as virus protection, icq, utilities, etc. We left the basics in such as systray, explorer, etc. We also did full tape backup just in case we screwed-up! Then we shut down the old system and removed the HD's. The new system consisted of a Celeron 300a, Abit BX6 Rev 2, 128 mg PC 100 cas 2 Ram, InWin Q500 Tower. The trick is to install a minimum of devices at initial boot. Just Old Drive C, New video card, New floppy, and new CD rom. System Posted right up at 450mhz (100 x 4.5) then went right into Win98. We checked Device Manager and everything was fine. We then one by one, installed other devices such as 2nd ole Hard Drive, Sound Card, NIC Card, LS 120, Atapi Zip Drive, etc. You install one device at a time, boot-up, let Win 98 find it and install, add drivers, etc. then shut down and install next devise. All went near-perfect, no blue screens of death, no crashes...It is always easier to start with a clean fdisc and reformatted drive, then install Win98; but it could then take weeks to reinstall 2-3 years worth of programs and files. This proceedure is worth the effort. Of course, a little luck also helps,
Good Luck,
Paul

[This message has been edited by jmatrix (edited 04-01-99).]

[kwai]

yeah, removing everything unnecessary sounds like a good idea. i have once changed the motherboard without doing that, though, and the system transferred flawlessly (well, as flawless as windows normally runs). another time it didn't work, so maybe specific drivers cause the problem?