First post, by appiah4
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I have a Pentium III system running on a Lucky Star 6P2BX2 motherboard. It's an early 440BX motherboard without the necessary VRMs to run 1.65/11.7V Coppermine CPUs. As a result, the system is stuck with a Katmai P3 450MHz but I want to upgrade it.
If at all possible, I want to pull this off without having to reformant and install everything. I happen to have an Abit BE6-II motherboard that also has a 440BX chipset, as well as a Slot 1 Coppermine P3 700MHz. Obviously slot configurations, IDE controller etc. are all different between the boards, I realize that, but the chipset is at least identival.
Now, I know that older versions of windows are pretty bad at dealing with motherboard changes when you go from say an intel chipset to an nvidia or via one, but I'm thinking Windows Me could handle this motherboard swap.
Am I setting myself up for a disaster?
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