Posted: 2/12/2007 5:47:49 PM EDT
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A buddy of mine gave me his old cabinet/motherboard as he's building up a quad core. The freebie is much better than my current set up. So he came over and we swapped out the CD, DVD and hard drive. It wouldn't boot up normally. I could access the OS in safe mode, but not without. His still has the 512 memoery card in it, and I have a 512 as well (his is 400mhz- I don't know what mine is, but he said it had to be the same to run both for 1ghz memory). I ended up having to swap my stuff back to my old PC. I called my brother and he said the easiest solution is to buy a cheap 40gig HD and install my OS on it, and use my current drive as a slave drive. Is the ANY way that I can get this up and running with what I currently have? Do I need to use my memory card on boot up or something? The details I know about the two: Mine E Machines, 512 DDR memory, 80 gig Western Digital HD, Memorex CD, Sony DVD, Celeron 2.93gig processor. PCI video connections and such. His AMD Athlon 64 processor, 512 memory, I think it's an Asus board, but don't know all that junk off the top. It has PCI, AGP, and maybe PCI express too. (I'm no techie. I just play games) Please post if I'm leaving out necessary info. I thought it'd be relatively plug and play, and don't want to spend $$ unecessarily as I'm addicted to rifles, not PC's. Thanks for any help ya'll |
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so you took your harddrive out of a working machine. and put it in a different tower with a different motherboard/proccessor ? if you did the chances of getting it to boot are pretty rare, unless the chipsets on the board are identical. the only way you might get it to work is to try a repair install. even after a repair install the system still might not function properly. your best bet is to do a fresh install. |
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So if I can buy another hard drive, install fresh on it, can I then hook up my existing hard drive as a slave drive to keep the data that is on it, or do I need to start copying everything to disk to preserve my info? I've got around 500 MP3 songs, and don't want to have to burn all of them to disks to save them. Not to mention all the games and pictures and junk. I'm just trying to keep from losing that data. Oh, yeah, what you said, I'm trying to use myhardware with another motherboard/processor. |
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