Trying to install OS from Gateway CD after mobo swap. 1

[mainegeek]

I replaced a mobo on a gateway pc. Having problems getting the os installed using the original os cd. I get the " CD made for Gateway Computers only" nag. I was wondering if there is away around this or if they need to purchase a retail os.

 

[gargouille]

Turned off any BIOS-caching to the hard drive schemes there may be? (IF there are.)
Could that be how the discovery is reckoned?

 

[mainegeek]

I copied and edited the cd removing the biosid detection
file. It allowed me to start the setup but wouldn't except the key code. Apparently the are tied together. I called gateway and they said it will not work with mobo change.
They said to use a retail os. I tried a line that has worked before but not on this one. You are correct,it does a bios check first.
Thanks for the response.

 

[iyedidit]

An ugly way of doing it(assuming that the old board isn't bad)would be to reinstall the old one, do the gateway installation, swap mobo's and install the drivers.

 

[mainegeek]

Unfortunatly the old board was bad. Even though it was under warrenty they wouldn't replace it because the owner told them that it had been struck during a power outage.
I had to modify a few things on the case to get it in. I also make it a rule to do a clean install when swapping mobo's. Especially when the os is WinMe as in this case. I used a clean copy of WinMe with owners key code (as instructed by gateways tech) and everything went in fine.

I have used a command line in the past, during the os install from a gateway restore disk and it ignored the bios check and allowed the install to proceed. But not in this particular case.