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by kmedd3

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recently I upgraded a mother board and trouble with it recognizing the drivers. I took it to the store I purchased the board at for the tech to look at it. He explained he dumped the contents of the enum file. He further explained this would allow the PnP os to reinstal current drivers. It worked but I am not quite sure what he did. Q: where can I find some info on this topic for further research? kmedd3@yahoo.com

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by mphoffar

What he did was remove the enum key under hkey_local_machine. Without getting real complicated, it's basically where windows will store all the information that it loads about your hardware.

I never really ran across a site that discusses thisin detail or why it works because it is a common tech trick to do that when changing something like a motherboard to avoid having to rerun windows setup again (which is your conventional wisdom).

There was a book called the registry black book (or something close to that name) that explained what certain keys did, so this might be a good place for you to start.

Mark

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