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Date: | Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:06:03 -0500 |
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Dear list members,
I recently acquired an older Packard Bell P90 which had the HD out of it - the
price was right - it was free. I have upgraded it to 40 Meg and installed a
spare Maxtor 340 HD that I had. It all runs fine. The PB has the following
specs:
Pentium 90
PCI architecture
PCI/ISA Riser Card
AMI system BIOS
Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 Video
I am currently running Win 95a on my 486 which has the following specs:
Intel 486 DX2-66 - ACER ACROS system
ISA architecture
VESA local bus
Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 Video
Modem, CD-ROM, Sound Card, Iomega tape drive, etc.
My question has to do with moving everything over to the P90. I have a new
Western Digital 3.2G that I don't want to go through the trouble of
reinstalling everything. Just did that a few months ago. The Maxtor 340 I
will use as a second HD and plan to install Linux on it.
Should I delete devices in Device Manager before the final shut down on the 486;
install the WD HD in the P90; and let windows detect the new hardware. My 486
is rock solid at this point and I don't want to get the registry all goofed up
by doing this. But I want to take advantage of the proformance jump with the
P90 and 40 MEGs of RAM. [I know its not a PII 400 with 100MegHz bus but its
the best I got!]
Thank you for your help
Sincerely, John
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