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New motherboard video issues "enable vga"

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I'm stuck! Replaced emachines motherboard with a Mach speed viper k8m8mSR2-VC bundled with an AMD 64 3000+ socket 754. This has integrated graphics plus AGP slot. (Not using the slot, have no card). As expected it wouldn't boot normal into windows beacause of the OEM tattoo issue. Safe mode ok but had issues loading mobo drivers etc....It finally made it to the "must activate windows" message which I considered a success so I grabbed a new XP HOME off a Best Buy shelf and did a repair over the existing. It hiccupped a couple times asking for a VIA driver on reboot so I had to jump into safe mode using "enable vga" to let it finish installing. It completed the install and is now activated but I still have to use "enable vga" to boot to windows. I loaded every driver that came on the motherboard disk and also updated them from the website but it still won't boot normal. I using it now, and it' works fine with the ugly mode on. No conflicts under device manager. Could there be left over stuff from the old system that's confusing the new mobo drivers? Feel free to ask obvious questions as I know it could be just about anything. :pray:
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Hi,

Two suggestions. First of all, I suspect you used your old hard drive setup (at least I thought that is what you did) for a new motherboard. Then, you tried to do a repair install of that drive. Even if you did that, I suspect that you might be wise to go into the device manager and simply delete the complete area under video and let it find those areas again after you reboot. With the new install, this should get rid of the old and refind the current ones. Then, go back in and load the onboard video drivers and see if that helps. You know, take it for a test drive after another reboot.

A second possible problem if you get no joy from the fist one. Have you checked into the BIOS setup menu to make sure the setting is to the onboard card? Check under ADVANCED SETTINGS for something that says PCI/VGA, plus some other verbage. Whatever it says, try the other setting and see if that helps.

Note: This is a common occurence with a repair install when you have drivers for a new motherboard on an older hard drive that is not a complete new and fresh install. That is one reason I always recommend a clean format and install for each new motherboard.....seems like there is always garbage that never goes away with a repair install.
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Thanks. I'll have to tackle it in the new year. Yea, existing hard drive setup was all that was available since it was an abrupt crash of the board making cause for the new one.

Bios settings are either ONboard or PCI, tried both no luck either way. I'll give deleting in the device manager a shot. I didn't consider it because it lists VIA/SG3 UniChrome Pro IGP as the device which I know was the naming in the new driver package. I'm just not sure which is an onboard driver or the AGP slot. But yea, I'm thinking there's old garbage in there. I did a repair instead of new install because I was lazy in making sure everything was backed up. A gig of family photos was spared. I'll touch base Monday.
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