Hi William
  I have helped build several barebones system here lately. Most of them
seem to go pretty smooth if all the related equipment is also new.
  I noticed you say you have a 6X CD which came to my attention. A few
months ago I was upgrading via the barebones type situation and tried using
the existing 10X CD and started having strange problems. Upon further
investigation into some of the README files it was pointed out that some
older CD ROM's especially those that use the Autoexec.bat to get recognized
have trouble getting along with the drivers for PCI Bus Master IDE
Controllers.
  In my situation if I had the mother board operate in the DOS compatible
mode it worked ok. But as you probably know, by looking in the System
Properties, underneath Performance, it would let you know the system is not
optimized. Being CD Roms are cheap, the easiest fix  (to get the computer
optimized) was a newer CD that windows would detect and not have to use the
Autoexec.bat.
  Don't know if you may run into this or not but just FYI incase.

Later
Gordon

William Hornkohl wrote:
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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