Rick, I generally find it easiest to use a spare small-but-hardy hard drive, transfer all existing data/essentials to it, then reformat the drive/install new mobo&CPU. The format takes a while, but it is a hands-off wait. Seems there are fewer surprises this way. Otherwise you can just install new stuff, install new drivers (et. al.), and then clean out the old mobo/CPU stuff. Your method works well, but only if you know which devices/drivers you can/cannot safely remove without potential mid-session crash. Martin Kurr email [log in to unmask] > From: Lindstrom, Rick[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > I've built several computers from scratch, but I've never done a mobo/cpu > upgrade to a system that already had Win95 operational on it. > At a guess, I would say that it would go something like this: > Before changing out the hardware, go into Device Manager and remove just > about everything(?); turn off the machine and do the hardware swap; > restart > with only the video card, floppy, CDROM and HDD attached; pray a little; > hope Win95 can figure out what's going on and detect the new "devices" on > the mobo; reinstall and redetect sound cards, NICs, or whatever, one at a > time. Pray a little more. Maybe have an operational system without doing a > format and reinstall? PCBUILD maintains many useful files for download on our web site - visit our download page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html