I installed a motherboard and kept the old hard drive as-is. When booting into windows it freezes. If I boot into safe mode it is fine. Windows is finding about 30 wireless cards. I tried to uninstall and it won't let me. I disabled all and restarted with the same problem. NOW, if I take out the wireless cards the laptop will boot in normal mode fine, but it still shows all those wireless cards and I still cannot delete, wether in safe mode or normal. Once I reinstall the wireless card the same problem happens in normal mode. I also disconnected the cmoss battery and it still shows all the wirelss cards. Lastly I thought it might be a windows problem so I thought I'd reinstall windows XP. Upon booting the CD and loading all the drivers, I get the blue screen of death with a warning of "PCI.sys". I tried another hard drive to install XP and that same blue screen comes up.

Might need to make a slip streamed cd with sp2 or sp3, or make a barts and use the install feature with the updated drivers for that motherboard. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

I don't know what you mean jefro.

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When you replaced the motherboard you confused Windows. It was set to recognise the original MB. You will probably need to reinstall XP (XO?) You might also get away with a repair install. A positive attitude won't solve all your problems, but it will annoy just enough people to be worth the effort.

That was my thought PC Bob. But when I use the xp install disc, the blue screen comes up with that warning

Is your copy of the XP disk an upgrade version or an OEM version? If you have the OEM version that will let you reformat the hard drive and then install Windows, I'd go in that direction....