[geeks] The Registry (?)

[Lionel Peterson]

I would strongly suggest rebuilding the OS install - the drivers and  
registry *should* be fine, but I wouldn't trust it...

I would have gone with an Intel MB, they have a few microATX choices.

Lionel

On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Jon Gilbert <jjj at io.com> wrote:

> At work we have these kiosks that are for customers to submit  
> digital files to the photo lab in the back of our store. The kiosks  
> are Windows 2000 and have Micro-ATX motherboards based on the old  
> Socket 475 Celeron, and they just die under the load of 12 megapixel  
> files. (They were made back in the day when 4 megapixels was  
> "alot.") But buying all new kiosks is cost prohibitive, so I decided  
> to swap out the motherboards.
>
> I'm using one kiosk as a guinea pig to see what would be involved in  
> upgrading the motherboard. I was able to swap out the motherboard  
> with a Biostar board with a 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo. It booted fine, and  
> I then installed all the new drivers. However the kiosk's software  
> crashes due to the fact it cannot set the sound volume. I noticed  
> that the previous motherboard's sound driver control panel was still  
> there, so I did "Add/Remove Software" and got rid of it. Sound plays  
> just fine out of the new sound port on the new motherboard, and all  
> the stuff in the device manager and sound control panel looks  
> kosher. However the crash still occurs.
>
> I'm guessing that somewhere in the registry, some crap remains from  
> the old sound drivers from the previous motherboard, but I have no  
> idea about how go about fixing this. I remember reading online that  
> there are programs that repair the registry... anybody know if that  
> is the proper way to go about fixing this? (I'm pretty much a noob  
> when it comes to Windows.) Or is the registry not where I should be  
> looking to solve this problem?
>
> I also thought perhaps that I need to update DirectX. Is it possible  
> that the kiosk software (which relies on java and Shockwave from  
> what I can tell) uses DirectX APIs to control things like system  
> sound volume?
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> -j
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