My old harddrive is working but my motherboard is bad so I'm buying a new one. My old one was an intel celerol with 2.50 ghz. I wanna buy a new motherboard with a processor that has 3.20 ghz and is an intel celeron d. will it work or no??
2006-08-01 03:35:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
almost all hard drives work with all motherboards and processors. hard drives are meant to be universally compatible because there are so many different motherboards out there, just update you driver software if you have it, or go to the website for the hard drive and look for updates
2006-08-01 03:38:22 · answer #1 · answered by sexydp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi-
It really depends on what data connectors your existing hard drive has, and what data connectors the new motherboard has.
If your old pc is a few years old, the hard disk will probably have an 'IDE' connection for data. This looks like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Drive_Electronics
[Note that IDE is also known as PATA these days, or 'Parallel ATA'].
Another possible connector is SATA. This is newer; most motherboards sold today have SATA connectors-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
(Far less likely is that you have a SCSI drive. SCSI connectors look like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI
They are similar-looking to IDE. As I say, unlikely in your case.)
Of course, many new motherboards offer the best of both worlds, with IDE (PATA) and SATA controllers built in. If this is the case, and you have identified your existing hard disk as being IDE, I would then check with the vendor that you can set the PATA port as the primary, bootable disk, so that your existing disk can be used as the operating system disk: a small number of motherboards have been sold that have both connectors present but lack the ability to set the IDE port as the main, bootable hard disk port.
A slightly different question to what you have asked is: will your operating system still load and run correctly after being moved to a new motherboard and processor? If you are running a version of Windows, the answer is likely to be no. To try and amend this, you can run an 'in-place reinstall' of Windows, as long as you have a bootable Windows CD.
Details on this (note that this is based on Win XP) can be found here: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
(Courtesy and thanks to Michael Stevens). Note that you would want to start from the section headlined "XP Repair Install")
HTH-
Gary
2006-08-01 10:45:10 · answer #2 · answered by Gary M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long as you stick with a celeron chip/board, you SHOULD be fine.
you MAY have to run a repair on the OS, however.
A repair will simply unload the wrong drivers so you can boot up and install the proper ones.
If the initial boot does not work, pop the windows XP cd in..
Press the enter key for the first dialog, f8 to accept the EULA, then hit R for repair.
do not hit the first R for recovery console.. you can really mess things up there if you don't know what you are doing.
Best of luck!!
2006-08-01 10:39:24 · answer #3 · answered by zeropointe01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should have no problem with that. How long have you had your hard drive.
+ Also check the cables that come with your new motherboard to make sure the are compatible with your harddrive.
2006-08-01 10:41:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably will, seeing as your old processor was also pretty recent. Your hard drive most likely has either the PATA (older) or SATA (newer) interface, which are both still ubiquitous in motherboards.
2006-08-01 10:39:18 · answer #5 · answered by LIGC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should work fine, unless your hard drive is SATA and the new board does not have SATA connections. You will probably have to reinstall Windows because it does not like it when you switch motherboards.
2006-08-01 10:39:13 · answer #6 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is your hard drive IDE, SATA, SCSI?
Find that out and make sure the new board has the capabilities for what you have.
Most likely you have IDE and most likely the new board will too. So they should work.
2006-08-01 10:39:17 · answer #7 · answered by Duds331 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to see if the drive is an ATA or SATA. That matters more than processor speed.
2006-08-01 10:38:30 · answer #8 · answered by Just Bored!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what the operating system that's installed on the Hard Drive is.
2006-08-01 10:39:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check your hard drive to see what type of interface it has for the hard drive (IDE, SATA, etc.) then check the motherboard to see if it has that type of interface. if it doesn't there are similar ones that will have the correct interface.
2006-08-01 10:38:44 · answer #10 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋