kcnal Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 I ran into a unique problem I was hoping someone may have encountered. I have two identical systems (i5000 based chipset (XEON)) with the same peripherals in each one. I loaded one of them with Windows 2000 Professional and their drivers. I then moved the drive to the second system and it booted as I expected, but once I logged in, it didn't recognize a good number of the devices (Windows wanted to load the drivers including graphics, networking, sounds, etc..).Any explanation of why this would happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Even though they are the same hardware, they have different addresses in them. Things like Network cards use MAC addresses. Other devices like Video might have different codes built into the BIOS of the card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodchip Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 As above there are no exact duplicate computers, just like people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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