You can certainly try it without worrying about doing any damage. If it does boot into the OS, you might have to get some of the hardware drivers for things like the NIC and load them before you can run updates on it.
Dan On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Allan Streib wrote: > As you may recall if you read this thread last week, it seems that my > father-in-law's computer either has a bad motherboard or bad CPU, > probably overheated if the latter. > > Spent a little time browsing the Newegg site and found a Micro ATX > motherboard, 4GB memory, and dual-core AMD Athlon II CPU for about $140. > Nothing spectacular at all, spec-wise, but would be a decent upgrade > from what he has. > > Wondering what the chances are that the Windows Vista install on his > hard drive will boot up and reconfigure itself for that hardware? The > original board was a different brand, though it did have a single-core > Athlon CPU. I don't have Windows install media. > > Thoughts/advice? > > Allan > -- > 1983 300D > 1979 300SD > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
