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BarracudaUAK · 09-28-17, 03:04 AM

First I want to preface my statement with the following: I haven't done this on Win7 or newer, so things may have changed.

Many years ago, if some family friends' children ran across PCs set by the road as trash, or in a dumpster...
They would pick them up, simply because they were children, and without a job new parts simply were not going to happen anytime soon.

Some worked, some didn't.
If it booted great, if it did not, but the hard drive was good...
We would pull the drive, and see if it would boot into Windows.

After several years of testing the parts, and building some fair "junkyard" PCs, we came to the following conclusions:

Intel > AMD: Booted and ran, had to install drivers, but it was good to go.
AMD > Intel: Never worked, Win95/98/ME/2000/XP didn't matter.
Intel > AMD > Intel: After swapping the C: drive to the AMD and booting into the installed version of Windows, it would NOT boot if we put it back into the Intel system.

Depending on the OS (WIn7 and up), you may have to re-install Windows if you swap over to the Intel motherboard/CPU.
Also note, that -IF- your C: drive does boot on the Intel chip/board, then you may also have to go through the 'Windows Activation' process again.

Barracuda

09-28-17, 03:04 AM	#5
BarracudaUAK Captain Join Date: Apr 2016 Posts: 520 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	First I want to preface my statement with the following: I haven't done this on Win7 or newer, so things may have changed. Many years ago, if some family friends' children ran across PCs set by the road as trash, or in a dumpster... They would pick them up, simply because they were children, and without a job new parts simply were not going to happen anytime soon. Some worked, some didn't. If it booted great, if it did not, but the hard drive was good... We would pull the drive, and see if it would boot into Windows. After several years of testing the parts, and building some fair "junkyard" PCs, we came to the following conclusions: Intel > AMD: Booted and ran, had to install drivers, but it was good to go. AMD > Intel: Never worked, Win95/98/ME/2000/XP didn't matter. Intel > AMD > Intel: After swapping the C: drive to the AMD and booting into the installed version of Windows, it would NOT boot if we put it back into the Intel system. Depending on the OS (WIn7 and up), you may have to re-install Windows if you swap over to the Intel motherboard/CPU. Also note, that -IF- your C: drive does boot on the Intel chip/board, then you may also have to go through the 'Windows Activation' process again. Barracuda Last edited by BarracudaUAK; 09-28-17 at 02:32 PM.