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Upgrading MOBO and CPU

Hi,

I am planning on upgrading my MOBO and CPU (to a BX chipset and PII 266) TODAY. I plan on transferring all of my old components (i.e. harddrive, SB) onto this new MOBO. I dual boot NT and 95, is there anything i should look out for? Will it be easy as 1-2-3? Once i get the Bios on the BX board to recognize my harddrive, will it boot up? Or do i have to modify the MBR? What are some of precautions?

Old Config:

TX chipset w/P200mmx.
Maxtor UDMA 5.2 dual booting NT and 95

swwelsh

All the hardware on the new motherboard will probably be different (ide controller, chipset, etc). I would think the hard drive will boot but you may have problems getting all the new hardware detected right away. If you have a backup, give it a shot, maybe NT and win95 will detect and install the new hardware with no glitches. If not, I would probably do a reinstall of both. I've also found it best to remove all non essential hardware when doing a board upgrade (sound cards, scsi cards, etc) to eliminate possible sources of conflicts. Once the new board is working, add the cards.

jcnork

I tend to agreee with swwelsh. I have done this before with a Win95 machine. All I did was boot into safe mode. Then goto the device manager and remove everything. Reboot and let Win95 redetect.
I am not sure if this will work with a NT dual boot though, I've never tried it. I suspect there will be some hardware detection problems.

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dankh

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thank you. NT booted up ok, 95 went crazy. I will get it under control though.