From: John Beckett 

Randall Parker 
wrote in message news::
> Okay, I have a box with an old processor and NT installed. Am I better off
swapping
> the motherboard while still running NT or is there a greater chance of
success if I
> swap motherboard after I upgrade to Win2k?

I can't give you an authoritative answer because I've only occasionally
tinkered with this stuff. However, I have moved hard drives (in removable
trays) from machine A to machine B etc. Under NT4 this was quite likely to
be successful (i.e. it would boot on B). Under W2000 and later it was quite
likely to NOT boot if there was the slightest difference between the
motherboards in A and B.

To state the bleeding obvious, make sure you have a REALLY GOOD AND TESTED
backup of your data before doing anything!

John

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