No, I mean do I have to reformat the drive to fix the corrupted registry junk? Strangely enough, uninstalling wineyes, reinstalling it, and putting on a demo of jfw 4 did get eloquence functioning for me where it never did before I ran a demo of norton utilities. At 07:16 PM 12/13/01 -0800, you wrote: >On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:10:33PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote: >> Do I really need to reformat? Or can I just reinstall? It must just be that > >I don't understand what you mean by "need to reformat"? If you are >replacing motherboard then you usualy do not need to reformat etc. If you >replace CD drive then it should be recognized by most generic kernels. > >> the place I get my system serviced and where I got it may not seem to know >> much. I discovered when they stuck a new CD drive in when my old one quit, >> the new hardware messages came up when it was booted at home for the first >> time, the strange sound I haven't got in quite awhile know came through the >> internal speaker that normally only beeps out the self test on boot. >> At 01:00 PM 12/13/01 -0800, you wrote: >> >keeping old ISA based peripherals and interfaces around is not an issue >> >yet. New motherboards still come with ISA bus. Depending on your computer >> >case you can choose betwen ATX style and older PC AT style motherboards >> >and power supplies. In case you want to upgrade or need to replace the >> >motherboard because of HW problems, I would suggest to migrate to ATX >> >style systems to keep you up to date for the next 5 to 10 years. > >... the rest deleted > >-- >Rafael > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >