Hi all,
Got these two resonably old PC's. There both pentuim 3 but one is 600Mhz speed and the other is 750Mhz so slightly faster. The 600Mhz PC is a Packard Bell Pulsar 600 ATX tower unit. The other PC is totally home made (Non- branded). The Packard Bell case is nicer than the other one plus the Packard Bell PC has a newer type power supply where it shuts XP down auto instead of saying "It is now safe to turn of your computer" (I assume it is the type of power supply that makes that happen? Please correct me if Im wrong) Basically I just want to swap the motherboard from the home made PC into the Packard Bell. I have actually just bought a 160Gb 7200rpm hard disk and a 5 port USB2 PCI card to inside the Packard Bell.
I haven't had a chance to look inside the home made one yet but its ATX size. Should I just be able to do a straight swap?? Will all the connections be in the same places as in a the Parkard Bell so I know where to connect thing back or will it be trial and error as there is no manaul for this motherboard? The homemade PC is fully operational so there should be no need to mess with any dip switches or anything like that?
Damien
Got these two resonably old PC's. There both pentuim 3 but one is 600Mhz speed and the other is 750Mhz so slightly faster. The 600Mhz PC is a Packard Bell Pulsar 600 ATX tower unit. The other PC is totally home made (Non- branded). The Packard Bell case is nicer than the other one plus the Packard Bell PC has a newer type power supply where it shuts XP down auto instead of saying "It is now safe to turn of your computer" (I assume it is the type of power supply that makes that happen? Please correct me if Im wrong) Basically I just want to swap the motherboard from the home made PC into the Packard Bell. I have actually just bought a 160Gb 7200rpm hard disk and a 5 port USB2 PCI card to inside the Packard Bell.
I haven't had a chance to look inside the home made one yet but its ATX size. Should I just be able to do a straight swap?? Will all the connections be in the same places as in a the Parkard Bell so I know where to connect thing back or will it be trial and error as there is no manaul for this motherboard? The homemade PC is fully operational so there should be no need to mess with any dip switches or anything like that?
Damien