NEVERMIND! I just couldnt wait any longer.
I replaced the original BAD motherboard with an ASUS A7n8x Deluxe.
YES, I had to modify the back piece as the parallel, serial, USB ports locations were a bit different.
I left the ORIGINAL (ghosted) drive in, and Believe it or not, (because I sure as hell don't), turned it on, and Windows 98SE found all of the drivers to accomodate the new board (Less the Gigabit Lan card drivers, I had to reinstall that) .
Yes, Windows had its NORMAL problem with not seeing the cdrom drive, but I just kept clicking away on its NUMEROUS "found new hardware" prompts (I didnt care, I was expecting to load Windows XP anyway). Click after click, and after a few restarts, It came up like a champ! UNBELIEVABLE!
I am not sure if the software would even run on Windows XP or not, but at the point in which I was at, I had nothing to lose!
I was going to try it on XP, but since everything loaded up perfectly, I went with it and ran.
Hope this helps someone ELSE out there that has a Dead motherboard on their DX7000 DVR.
Remember, you have to cut the back panel out to fit the new motherboard (I have a mill, so it was easy and neat for me, but metal shears would work too.
Good luck
I dont recommend this for the Faint of Heart though. This system is for my HOUSE, And is NOT a critical security device with HIGH priority(in a sense of a Business setting. It IS a MAJOR priority to me. I had NOTHING to lose but to TRY it. It WORKED though, so I am willing to take the time and reply all of this stuff to help YOU out. If it DOESNT work for you, dont come yelling at me. I am only posting this as an ACTUAL event and a replacement that I had to go through on my DX7008-60 DVR to get it back up and running. AND, I did it in under 12 hours TOTAL.
I STILL cant believe that the Windows 98SE software that was PRE-loaded on the disk by Pelco found ALL of the necessary drivers to get this replacement Motherboard back up and running.
It REALLY looked skeptical though in the beginning by all of the "Found new hardware" pop-ups, but keep clicking away. BUT let Windows 98SE find its own driver paths! . Just keep clicking on let Windows find the best driver. it will USUALLY be in the c:\windows directory though.
I did NOT add ANY extra drivers to get this motherboard to work!
If you have any questions or ? ? ?, feel free to email me. All of MY Pelco stuff is from Ebay with NO Pelco support whatsoever. I have/had NOTHING to lose by taking the risk. The motherboard went out,. and I wasnt about to spend a bunch of money on something else. I am HAPPY with what I have (even though I would MUCH rather have a 16 camera DVR than the 8 camera that I have, but money holds me back!
Thanks for reading and I hope I was able to help SOMEONE.
AND, you know what? If I WAS able to help you, PLEASE send me an email stating such. This took alot of my time to get this stuff all in order, and If It hasnt helped Anybody, then I wont post anymore. I will just keep all of this . . . ."STUFF". . . . . to myself and take it to the grave with me.
AND, by the way, I have replaced the 60gig drive out with 120gig Seagates (they run cooler + more space) BUT, and I do say BUT, after a couple of months of NOT deleting files, the DVR will lock up (as the byte count is incorrect), and I have to just redo a (Norton) Ghost image back onto the disk (takes 5 minutes if you have a "CLEAN" Ghost image ready. Everything then goes as normal for about three months or so (motion recording).
Again, have any question o
