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| Thread ID: 30967 | 2003-03-08 03:02:00 | Upgrading some, keeping the rest | Lionking (3314) | Press F1 |
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| 126496 | 2003-03-08 03:02:00 | Hi, I run Windows 2000 Professional, and over the years (months) I have religiously installed all available security patches, updates and service packs. I have done the same for all the software that I use including antivirus, Internet browsers, games, CD-Burners … etc. on a 40GB hard drive. Everything is ticking along fine, but now I think I need more power and more space. I am thinking of getting a new nForce2 motherboard with integrated video and sound, CPU, DDR RAMs combo on a 80GB HDD while keeping the rest of my stuff, e.g., full tower casing, DVD-ROM Drive, CDRW, IDE Zip Drive … etc. What is the best way to go about doing that without having to reformat the hard drive and reinstalling everything? Can you guide me through step by step on how I can do it. Do I transfer everything to a bigger harddrive first, and how do I do that? Then change the motherboard with the new CPU and RAMs after that, or should it be the other way round? I have a Asus A7V, AMD Duron 600, 512 MB of PC133 RAM and like to change it to a MSI K7N2G-LISR, AMD XP2100+, 512 MB of RAM comprising 2 sticks of 256MB of PC 2700 DDR333 or PC 3200 DDR400 RAMs. Cheers |
Lionking (3314) | ||
| 126497 | 2003-03-09 04:38:00 | Hi Have a look here pressf1.pcworld.co.nz and here http://www.techtutorials.com/ have a look at PF1 FAQ, theres another recent post that mentions another good site (name escapes me) for building comps. HTH Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 126498 | 2003-03-09 05:56:00 | dont know how an image would work on a new nmother board but if you just replace the HDD with a bigger one it should be easy enough to use drive image magic to copy everything over to it Partionmagic is very good as well to keep nthe c:drive at a manageable size easier to defrag and back up etc have both if you need them | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 126499 | 2003-03-11 00:18:00 | Soorry Its power Quest Drive image 2002 that I am using at the moment very straight forward to use have it on cd if you need any more help or advice www.epinions.com |
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| 126500 | 2003-03-11 00:22:00 | The Duron can easily be changed to a 1.3 thunderbird cpu and just add a 80 gig Hdd plus the dvd drive etc and you will have a really fast PC dont go with onboard graphics it will slow you down a lot especially for gaming | kiwibeat (304) | ||
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