Changed motherboard, can't load drivers

[ay-bala]

Old motherboard died, bought and installed an ASRock FM2A88M-HD+ R2.0. Of course Windows won't load because it can't recognise the new motherboard and needs the drivers installed. Got some advice and went to the C: prompt and used the following to attempt to load the drivers:

dism /image:C\ /add-driver:X:\ /recurse (where Driver:"X":\ refers to the location of the drivers).

Tried to use the driver CD as the location of the drivers - no go.
Copied the drivers to a USB and used that location - no go
Eliminated everything on the USB but the drivers - no go

Continually says it can't find the drivers.


Now VERY frustrated - any ideas?

[parsec]

Re: Changed motherboard, can't load drivers

I doubt the dism command will do what you want it to do, since it only works with .inf files. This is from a dism information page:

The driver servicing command supports only .inf files. Windows Installer or other driver package types (such as .exe files) are not supported.

That page: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../hh824971.aspx

What was the old mother board that died?

You may have some luck trying to start Win 7 in Safe mode, if that boots then you may have a chance fixing that installation.

The real solution is to install Win 7 again, fresh for the new board.

[ay-bala]

Re: Changed motherboard, can't load drivers

Hi Parsec,

thanks for the advice. I'm beginning to see that re-installing Windows 7 on the HDD will be the only way to get things to work. The old mobo was a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 with an AMD Phenom triple core processor (AM2?).

I have since managed to get another old ASUS P5KPL/100 motherboard to start up for me so I can at least use the computer again. I tried running the CD from the new motherboard with the old one and it tells me it is not for that platform.

I might even invest in Windows 8 and be done with it.