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I am going to change my board from a Iwil kk266 to a shuttle AK31 ver 3.1 and was wondering who has tried doing a motherboard change by deleating the (ENUM) key in the registry.I have heard that this will save a windows reload by just removing all the drivers and windows will redetect these on startup,which will save a lot of time over reformating.I am looking for advice from those of you that have did this and how did it work out?
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I was always to believe that you would have to do a clean install when changing the MB. Let me know how this works out, because I change motherboards on a regular basis.
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It's worked for me several times with no unforseen consequences

 

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Ian_D said:

It's worked for me several times with no unforseen consequences

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I just have a few questions: 1) where in the registry is this key found? 2) Were there any BSOD after doing this?
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ENUM in registry

Heelo,

Actually he's right "by deleating the (ENUM) key in the registry" The Only thing is that I have always read to make sure it's the same chipset ie, change ViA for ViA, and Intel for Intel, NOT VIA for Intel..

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Well it worked fine for me and all my programs were saved.The only thing i had to do after was to run windows and install the drivers again,and windows found most of them anyway.This saved a lot of time over a compleat format and reinstall.The enum key is found in the registry under H KEY LOCAL MACHINE.Thats where you deleat the enum folder.Make sure you have your important stuff backed up just in case though.
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bisyfxn said:

The enum key is found in the registry under H KEY LOCAL MACHINE.Thats where you deleat the enum folder.Make sure you have your important stuff backed up just in case though.
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There is an ENUM there and also in HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG. Do I deleat them both?
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I only deleted the enum key in H KEY LOCAL MACHINE and it worked for me,don't know what to tell you about the other one.
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do u have to do a clean install or delete the enum key in the registry when u r swapping the mobo?? why?? i thought as long as u install the new driver for the mobo, everything should be ok??

 

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Last time I swapped mobo on a system I changed everything, so basically the only thing from the old system was the HDD and windows install. Put this in the new system booted fine and after windows did a few hardware setups it was fine! To be honest I was amazed!

 

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will this work with windows xp pro also?

 

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I swap boards pretty often too - have never deleted a registry item and have never had to reinstall windows! This should not be a problem. I've done this on ME, XP Pro and 2000 without incident.