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Default Computer mainboard upgrade and transfer of old hard drives

F Murtz wrote:
NT wrote:
On Nov 11, 9:13 am, Andy 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.



HAL Heuristically-programmed Algorithmic Computer (computer in 2001:
A Space Odyssey)
HAL [not an acronym] from 2001: A Space Odyssey
HAL Halliburton (oil service company)
HAL History, Arts and Libraries
Hal Halberd (Runescape gaming)
HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
HAL Hawaiian Airlines (ICAO code)
HAL Home Automated Living
HAL Hybrid Assistive Limb (robotic suit)
HAL Halon (fire protection agent)
HAL Hyper Article En Ligne (Hyper Article on Line)
HAL Holland Amerika Lijn (Dutch: Holland America Line)
HAL Histidine Ammonia-Lyase
HAL Horticulture Australia Ltd.
HAL Hot Air Leveling (technique for laying soldering coating on
circuit boards)
HAL Hackers At Large
HAL Health Advisory Level
HAL Hardware Adaptation Layer
HAL Hard Array Logic
HAL Atlantic Halibut
HAL Hyperalimentation
HAL Hand Activity Level
HAL High-Order Assembly Language
HAL Heavy Axle Load (transportation)
HAL High Accident Location
HAL Hardware Artificial Life
HAL Hyperspace Analog to Language
HAL Howard Astronomical League (Howard County, Maryland)
HAL Helicopter Attack Squadron Light (US Navy aviation unit
designation used 1967-72 and again 1976-88)
HAL Hargrave-Andrew Library (Monash University, Australia)
HAL Hyper-Algorithmic Logic (Star Bridge Systems Inc. hypercomputer
technology)
HAL Horizontal Alert Limit
HAL Hickling Arthurs Low Corporation (Canada)
HAL Humanities, Arts and Languages
HAL Human Access Language (early variation of Lotus 123)
HAL Height Above Landing Area
HAL Historical Annotated Landings (National Marine Fisheries Service
database)
HAL Highly Automated Logic
HAL Hypertext Aided Learning
HAL Holston Associated Libraries, Inc.
HAL Halken Laboratories Inc
HAL Homework Access Line
HAL Hyperbaric Airlock
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer

HAL common abbreviation of harry

There's the problem, right there!


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


NT