Greetings, Mr. Hornkohl, et al.--
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From: William Hornkohl <[log in to unmask]>



>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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As I've read from a number of posters here, (and I am assuming
you are running Win9x) you should have no problems with this plan
as long as you boot to safe mode, go to Control Panel ->
System -> Device Manager and remove ALL devices before shutting
down the old system for the removal of hard drive and other
components. Win95 should re-detect everything and 'align' all of
the old and new resources when you boot up after installing all
of your components. Be sure, of course, to take the necessary
CMOS HDD recognition steps and disable any COM port which may
conflict with a modem, as well as have any driver disks ready
(though the drivers ought to be in place for any of the
transferred devices).

Good luck and happy upgrade,

Paul A. Shippert                        Library/Media Specialist
"All what we got here's American-made.
  It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed." Frank
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