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Rick Z
Most of us have experienced how you cannot plug in somebody else's hard drive into your system and
expect it to boot unless the motherboard is very similar. How similar probably depends on the
manufacturer. I'm using Socket 775, Core 2 Duo stuff now. I want a system that's set up so if
something goes wrong I can replace that thing and be right back up and running. Of course I need a
bootable backup hard drive, and I was thinking that if I had 2 identical motherboards I could swap
the other one in case the first one died. All the other stuff shouldn't make XP fret if it was
changed, such as the CPU, video card, DVD burner, etc. Remember that only one thing breaks at a
time (99.99%!). But the stuff that usually spells disaster (downtime) is when the motherboard or
hard drive fails or the OS gets corrupted somehow. Opinions? A spare socket 775 motherboard of the
quality I'm using can be procured for less than $50 so its a nice insurance policy.
expect it to boot unless the motherboard is very similar. How similar probably depends on the
manufacturer. I'm using Socket 775, Core 2 Duo stuff now. I want a system that's set up so if
something goes wrong I can replace that thing and be right back up and running. Of course I need a
bootable backup hard drive, and I was thinking that if I had 2 identical motherboards I could swap
the other one in case the first one died. All the other stuff shouldn't make XP fret if it was
changed, such as the CPU, video card, DVD burner, etc. Remember that only one thing breaks at a
time (99.99%!). But the stuff that usually spells disaster (downtime) is when the motherboard or
hard drive fails or the OS gets corrupted somehow. Opinions? A spare socket 775 motherboard of the
quality I'm using can be procured for less than $50 so its a nice insurance policy.