ECS Motherboard Help

[Pandora]

Hi I just bought a ECS motherboard more specifically aECS K7S5A Socket A motherboard and I am transferring parts from my old computer to my new case that I baught. Now obviously I already have windows installed but I have couple of queries because I am not sure what to do lol.

First question how do I install the motherboard drivers since obviously there is already the drivers for my old motherboard running and working install of windows already, and second is I don't know if I have downloaded the correct drivers for my new motherboard so if anyone knows where I can get the exact drivers that would be of great help to me . Although I have downloaded a driver for my new motherboard I am not certain as to whether or not its the correct driver. So I look forward to hearing from you and thanks for reading

[Stormcrow]

I moved your post to it's own thread so you'll hopefully get more and better help with the situation
So...you didn't reinstall windows on the HDD, just moved it to the new board right? Whats the model number on your board? The more detail we can get the more likely we are to find the right drivers.

[Pandora]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

I moved your post to it's own thread so you'll hopefully get more and better help with the situation
So...you didn't reinstall windows on the HDD, just moved it to the new board right? Whats the model number on your board? The more detail we can get the more likely we are to find the right drivers.

To answers your question the model number is listed above lol

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

I moved your post to it's own thread so you'll hopefully get more and better help with the situation
So...you didn't reinstall windows on the HDD, just moved it to the new board right? Whats the model number on your board? The more detail we can get the more likely we are to find the right drivers.

No I did not re-install windows on the hdd, me plan is to just move it across to my new case and link it to my motherboard

[Reloadron]

Originally Posted by Pandora

No I did not re-install windows on the hdd, me plan is to just move it across to my new case and link it to my motherboard

I don't see that working. If you are just replacing the motherboard and case and plan to run Windows from the original HDD I don't see it working as Windows likely will not like its new home. Well same home but new evvironment.

Likely you will need to reinstall Windows.

Ron

[azianai]

I tried that once, windows would boot but it had a bunch of errors, looking for ports and drivers that were changed. Ended up just reinstalling windows.

[screwballl]

You only chance is to backup anything you need when still hooked up to the old system then move it over, reinstall windows and then reinstall or move your backed up info.

[Pandora]

Originally Posted by Reloadron

I don't see that working. If you are just replacing the motherboard and case and plan to run Windows from the original HDD I don't see it working as Windows likely will not like its new home. Well same home but new evvironment.

Likely you will need to reinstall Windows.

Ron

Interesting why would I need to reinstall windows? Why couldn't I just install the correct drivers for the motherboard and continue to run windows? Is this because it might cause a conflict between the OS and the new drivers for the motherboard?

[screwballl]

if it is a new motherboard but everything else (internal hardware) is the same then yes you WILL need to reinstall windows...
if it is all the same hardware and same motherboard but only in a new case then it should all work just fine, maybe reinstall a few drivers.

[Quakindude]

Originally Posted by Pandora

Interesting why would I need to reinstall windows? Why couldn't I just install the correct drivers for the motherboard and continue to run windows? Is this because it might cause a conflict between the OS and the new drivers for the motherboard?

That is exactly why. I didn't notice anywhere in your post the old motherboard chipset. Your new motherboard uses a SIS chipset. No telling what's in your old board.

Even the same manufacturer of chipsets, like Nvidia, Intel, SIS, VIA, etc, uses different drivers for different updates to their own chipsets. So the likely hood of this working the first time you swap the drive over to the new mobo is very unlikely. Chipset drivers tell the HDD where/what the mobo IS, what the features are, the SATA ports, USB, 1394, Hard drive controller, memory controller, so on and so forth.


There was a post somewhere on these forums at one point that described a process you could go through to do this without reinstalling Windows. It involved editing the registry, but I can't find it. I've never tried that, so don't know how successful it would be.

Me personally, I'd say back up every thing you'd like to keep. Whether you find a way to do the swap without reinstalling Windows or not, you will want that data backed up because even if you do find a way to do it via editing the registry, there's a very good chance you'll lose data.

[Pandora]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

That is exactly why. I didn't notice anywhere in your post the old motherboard chipset. Your new motherboard uses a SIS chipset. No telling what's in your old board.

Even the same manufacturer of chipsets, like Nvidia, Intel, SIS, VIA, etc, uses different drivers for different updates to their own chipsets. So the likely hood of this working the first time you swap the drive over to the new mobo is very unlikely. Chipset drivers tell the HDD where/what the mobo IS, what the features are, the SATA ports, USB, 1394, Hard drive controller, memory controller, so on and so forth.


There was a post somewhere on these forums at one point that described a process you could go through to do this without reinstalling Windows. It involved editing the registry, but I can't find it. I've never tried that, so don't know how successful it would be.

Me personally, I'd say back up every thing you'd like to keep. Whether you find a way to do the swap without reinstalling Windows or not, you will want that data backed up because even if you do find a way to do it via editing the registry, there's a very good chance you'll lose data.

The chipset in my current motherboard is VIA and the current chip set in me new motherboard is SIS 735S DDR Single Chip Controller
Hope that helps