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More info?)
Suppose all you can do is try your luck. I have had a drive from an A7N8X
Deluxe work in an old Compaq EN SFF (P2-450) after about 10 minutes of
windows re-installing drivers - actually worked perfectly (was not my
intention though)
If they are similar boards, your luck should be good. I doubt you will have
a perfectly optimised setup, but hey - we are talking Windows and it's
already far from perfect...
Worst case, boot in safe mode, go to the hardware manager and delete all
entries under 'System Devices'. Reboot, let windows find the new hardware
and you should be fine.
Bryon
"Arifi Koseoglu" <arifi@tnn.net> wrote in message
news:2rak5qF186uj1U1@uni-berlin.de...
> "Pete D" <no@email.com> wrote in message
> news:FOR3d.37989$D7.9528@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > ???? They both use CD's to boot. What are you trying to achieve?
> >
> > "Arifi Koseoglu" <arifi@tnn.net> wrote in message
> > news:2r90utF17mlvlU1@uni-berlin.de...
> > > Since they have the same chipsets (SiS 651/SiS 962L) - would that be
> > > possible ? Any experiences?
>
>
> Normally Windows is very picky (and probably rightfully so) on motherboard
> configurations. So, you have to be extremely (extreeeeemely) lucky to
remove
> a boot disk from computer A, plug it into computer B and see the B boot
> properly, unless the motherboard of B one is the same as A.
>
> I have a feeling that most of the problem lies on chipset differences. So,
> given the fact that these two motherboards have identical chipsets (but
> different memory provisions), I wonder whether the scenario would be
> successful with them.
>
> Why do I want to know that? Well, we have four P4S533-MX based PCs, and
wish
> to be able to carry their boot disks to ones using, let's say, P4SP-MX, in
> case such need arises - (a dead motherboard for example) - without having
to
> re-install the OS. The P4S533-MX is no longer being sold.
>
> -arifi
>
>
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