On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 20:24 +1000, Scott Waller wrote:
> What ever flavour Linux whether Ubuntu or Redhat or Fedora, will this be
> the same? Could I take the HDD (80 gig about 2 years old) out of my
> wife's desktop and install it into a brand new computer and still boot
> up?
Would it be bette
> My Father in law has a lot of software and important files that he
> really can't afford to loose or go through re-installing programs. The
> guy told him a story that in windoze XP you can not just put an old HDD
> onto a new MB?
>
> I offered to call the guy, as I had done this many times wh
Hi Scott,
I did exactly that with Ubuntu 6.10 a little while back. I replaced a
basic AMD 2400+ and MB with a 64 bit AMD 3300+ and had no problems at
all. I used the same video card in both instances, so if you are also
changing the video card you may have to reinstall your nvidia drivers
(if
Hi SLUG,
I have a strange question.
Background:
Last week my father in-law was having computer problems (as usual),
anyway, through a course of different problems; PSU and graphics card.
The computer guy offered to replace the MB? Very strange, for FREE!
After that he got it home, plugged it in
