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Question

OK. I am getting another mobo to replace the cut rate Dell 1100 dimension one I have now, as it does not have Pcie slots or a good on board media. I am looking to replace it with this http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2849282&CatId=1533 (ECS 945GZT-M) or this http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3176993&CatId=1533 (Biostar p4m90-m7). The reason I am doing this is because I would like to use the Celeron D cpu I have on the dell and put it into the other mobo and overclock it (until I can buy a 775 dual core cpu). The grapics unit on the new mobo, while not the greatest are above and beyond the crappy on board graphics I have now. So my plan is to take the hard drive, the memory and the processor from the Dell and transfer it over to the new mobo. Does this sound right and doable? Did I miss anything?

Answer 1

First you memory may or may not be compatible. Hopefully it is. Secondly I hope you have the CD with your operating system on it as it will not work out of the box - too many changes. You will have to reload the operating system. If everything works OK it will come up correctly, if not you will also have to find and load the drivers for the video, sound, possibly Ethernet, etc. What I suggest doing is also buying another drive and copy everything to it, then if your experiment does not work, you can just pop the old one back together and buy the rest of the stuff to build your own (like the case, etc.