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  • January 31, 2013 at 11:32 pm

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    Lynn Pettis (1/31/2013)

    And no, it didn't go missing. It just died with a loud pop. Could be the power supply, the system is 8 years old.

    Question for those more hardware savvy, if I replace both the motherboard and the power supply, would it boot up with the current hard drives?

    Maybe. It depends a lot on what you have for a video system and network system if they're built in. The system may hurl and come up in the VGA mode and then you'll have to install drivers for the new mother board or it may auto-magically recognize the change and ask you to insert a driver disk or maybe it'll just work.

    You'll likely have to re-register Windows on the box because of the MB change, though.

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