Hi,

The old 40 pin cable will be fine because that is what is supported by your
main board.
It just means that data transfer will not be as fast as the hard drive can
do.  If you want maximum speed from the drive, purchase an ATA133 or ATA100
controller card and install the drive on that with an 80 pin cable.

If you can change the CPU to Intel you will save yourself a lot of
compatibilty griefs that you may of experienced with the Cyrix chip.  You
have to check the main board manual to see which cpus from Intel will go in
the board.  You will probably have to move the bus speed and core voltage
jumpers on the main board to fit the Intel cpu.  The Intel 233 MMX which
was the fastest Intel Socket 7 cpu they produced, before coming out with
the P-II and should work with that board.

You might find the board supports AMD socket 7 processors, which went as
high as k6-2 566 (100mhz bus).  Chances are the AMD k62/333 would fit on
that ASUS board and be more compatible with software that the Cyrix chip
is, running faster than Intel can give you.

Yes the OS will see and work with the win 95 drive, though the drive may be
in Fat16 mode and not FAT32.  Remove the old drive till after you install
the new components adn have it running correctly, then put the drive in and
copy any files you want to the new drive.  After that, then if it is in the
Fat16 mode you can convert it to FAT32, allowing more informatin storage on
the drive due to smaller sector sizes.  There is a utility in the windows
98 2nd to do that.


God Bless America!

Joe Lore
MicroComputerCenter, Inc.
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