Your plan will work fine; however, have your Windows' disk nearby as your
operating system is going to find dozens of new things to load drivers for
with your new board (COM ports, drive controllers, LPT, chipsets, etc.).

If you are running Win95 first release, you will likely need the patches for
USB, late Intel chipset or VIA (depending upon which chipset is on the
board) and bus mastering.  Easiest solution to a brand-new board upgrade is
to have Windows 98 on your drive before moving the drive to a new board.

Hope this helps.
gary r. tennesen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of William Hornkohl
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 9:31 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCBUILD] barebones
>
>
> I just ordered a barebones system from a local supplier
> (accubyte) It has an
> Abit BH6 board with a Celeron 300A chip with a fan and floppy drive
> installed in an ATX Mid tower case ($279) I bought a 128 meg dimm of pc100
> SDRAM memory from Crucial Technology ($222). I would like to pull the 6X
> cd-rom drive, sound card, modem, PCI video card, and hard drive out of my
> Micron P133 system and install them into the new one
> (at least for now). Since the new system will use alot of the old hardware
> is there a chance I will be able to leave everything on the hard drive and
> just plug it into the new system.  Everything is working good
> now, and that
> doesn't happen very often.  I doubt it's that easy. Does my plan seem OK
>
>

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