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Default Computer mainboard upgrade and transfer of old hard drives

On Nov 11, 9:13*am, Andy Burns wrote:
Scott M wrote:
You've got backup/spare drives galore(!) so just power up the new board
on the bench with one of them and see what happens. At worse you'll have
to recreate it.


It's a while since I looked into it, but swapping an AMD and Intel CPU
used to be too much for the HAL to bear, resulting in a blue screen, if
you search you might find underhand methods of swapping to a different
HAL, but you're quite likely to break it doing that too.


The joys of windows. Can you just reinstall it, whereupon it will
reuse the existing use settings?


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