Well, it can be done with Windows, but

Post #18,715 by tonytib 11/18/01 10:52:59 PM Reply	Well, it can be done with Windows, but you won't like the results. I just swapped motherboard CPU (a K6-2/450 to Athlon 1.2G) with Win 95 -- well, the system did work, just barely, with no CD-ROM's recognized, etc. That's after many reboots. I have since done a total re-install. In so many ways, Windows is crap. Tony
Post #18,855 by inthane-chan 11/19/01 6:00:20 PM Reply	Actually, there's a relatively simple way for Win9x fam... Before uninstalling the old system and installing the new system, copy your Win9x install CD (just the Setup dir, not the rest) to your local hard drive, in case you don't get CD-ROM. Boot into safe mode. R-Click on the "My computer" icon, select Properties. Select "Device Manager" tab. You'll see somewhere down there an icon titled either "Plug and Play BIOS" or "ACPI BIOS" depending on the type of PC you have. Select it, then click the "Remove" button. Shut down your computer, install the new hardware, and reboot. The machine will ask for new drivers, and reboot about six million times, but EVERYTHING will be reinstalled - and I have never run into a non hardware-related problem when I do this. And I did it ~300-400 times when I was a hardware tech. Worked great. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #18,935 by SpiceWare 11/20/01 9:53:30 AM Reply	interesting workaround would have saved me many hassles over the years. Had I known this before, Winxx might still have a partition on my OS/2 system. I used to keep a Winxx partition but got rid of it due to the problems I kept getting after doing major hardware upgrades. I did leave Winxx on the Thinkpad, no possible conflict with major hardware upgrades there :-) Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore

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