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rjonst
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 Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:28 am Post subject: Old to newer... |
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The situation is an older (homebuilt) system (circa 1994) with a Soyo 2BA motherboard, 1Gb RAM, using an overdriven Pentium 133 ( up to 500Mhz), which is used to stage an old car website. The system runs well with Win98 and is absolutely stable, networked (wireless) with 2 other systems, in house, etc and has two 40 GB (EIDE) drives.
I'd like to go to a faster system, keeping the Win98 OS. IE, just plug the drives into another MB with a faster processor and have everything work... What are my options?
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JAC
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| Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: Old to newer... |
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| rjonst wrote: | The situation is an older (homebuilt) system (circa 1994) with a Soyo 2BA motherboard, 1Gb RAM, using an overdriven Pentium 133 ( up to 500Mhz), which is used to stage an old car website. The system runs well with Win98 and is absolutely stable, networked (wireless) with 2 other systems, in house, etc and has two 40 GB (EIDE) drives.
I'd like to go to a faster system, keeping the Win98 OS. IE, just plug the drives into another MB with a faster processor and have everything work... What are my options?
thanks
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rjonst@gmail.com |
You'll have to install the drivers for the new mobo, and you may have a job finding 98 drivers, unless you buy a complete mobo on ebay with drivers. Chances are the transition will not be smooth.
My suggestion is you leave that old system exactly as it is and build up a new one*. There is no point in hanging onto the old hard drives, as they will eventually fail. Hard drives are the one thing I dont buy second hand, ever.
So.. work out how much cash you have to spend, and assemble a new system. Copy over the files you want from the old system and away you go. $100 should be plenty to get a decent high spec system, built with mostly second hand parts of ebay or from friends/work. Buy the hard drives new. Everything else cheap cheap cheap.
Once you are happy with your new system, sell the old one off for parts and reclaim some $.
* if you cant do that now consider what you'll do right now if your current system has a major hard drive fail, or if the dog takes a piss in the chassis and it all blows up. |
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Wizzard1
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| Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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I agree, build a new system, with new hardware and software.
We have customers who did upgrade from DOS to Windows NT, and then stayed there given the hardships they had... And now, they are COMPLETELY screwed- The minor hindrances switching from DOS to NT are nothing compared to the problems switching from NT to Windows 7! |
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