Will there be any technical difficulties...

So atm i have a pc was a prebuilt machine from Acer and ive had it for a couple of years and have slowly been upgrading it myself. I first changed the onboard video card to a 5200 and now its running a 6800GT. The ram went from the original 1/4 of a gig to half a gig and now a gig. Ive added a couple of hard drives and dvd-rw drives, some more fans/heatsinks, sound card, network card. And i found i reached my limit in upgrading it because ive always been restricted when running programs and playing games through its processing power because it being an old machine has a poor 32bit 1.9ghz 2600 (i think) amd inside it which really cant cope with the things i try and get it to do.

So i saved up some cash and have ordered a ASUS A8V Socket 939 VIA K8T800 Pro ATX AMD Motherboard (which has an agp port) to go with the X-Blitz Ninja case and 450V PSU i bought. I also ordered a 4200+ AMD 64bit X2 socket 939 processor to go on the new motherboard. And a Nauticus water cooling system.

These are the only new parts i have bought and was hoping that i would be able to transfer the video card, hard drives, dvd drives, and ram from the desktop i have atm to the new machine and hopefully get it all working fairly smoothly. Now as far as i can see i shouldnt have too much trouble with this but then again im probably overlooking many things.

Im looking for some advice in what could possibly or will not work in what i plan to do and whether theres something missed out... you know the usual questions. Also what sort of order i should go about building the new machine with these parts and whether i should buy something else now before i start that i will need when doing it etc.

Im fairly sure i must have missed something in my reasoning of transfering the parts i have now to the new machine because i always do :P

Thanks /world4ch/

I wouldn't use the old Acer power supply with the new CPU/mobo. Get one with more POWERZ err...watts.

Yeah i bought a X-Power 450w PSU as a package deal with the case... i knew the Acer one would run me into trouble if i tried using that, mainly because its a peice of crap and probably like 350v :P

What order would you go about putting the stuff together ?

Would anything need configuring after being put in or should it run pretty much immediately ??

I know there must be a fault along the line somewhere here and id rather try and overcome this before i run into it... can anyone advise me ?

>>4

1.  Put on your cloak and wizard hat
2.  Hold Motherboard in left hand
3.  ????
4.  Profit!!!

>>1
my 280W ps runs a 6800GT just fine

>>6
haha win

>>6
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there doesnt appear to be a fault in any of your reasoning, you may have to re-install windows because your current motherboard drivers wont work with the new a8v, therfore it wont even boot, but after that, i dont see any problems, i have a friend who did much the same thing about a year ago.

one thing though, never try to rely on asus tech support.

You do not have to reinstall windows, however what you do have to do is this:
"go to device manager and select the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller and select your current storage controller.  Right click, select update driver and select install from a list or specific location.  Click don't search I will choose the driver to install and select the standard dual channel IDE controller."
You should also start the computer in safe mode first time.

It will prevent bluescreen either way, and I ran in normal mode on my Win2003 personally without any issues changing from an intel motherboard to an AMD one. Also make sure you do not run windows again on your old computer after you do this, eg no do not restart, but shut down right after.

>>11

What do you mean by:

>>Also make sure you do not run windows again on your old computer after you do this, eg no do not restart, but shut down right after.

DO you mean that once i have the new one setup do not attempt to try using the hard drive now being used with the new mobo and processor on the old machine ever again ?

No what I mean is that once you change the ide controller driver, shut down the computer and do not restart it again, instead put the drive in new computer and start windows on that. Only warning is that if you fail this somehow you gonna lose windows install - probably - and if you restart your old computer with the driver set as the "standard" it should reset the driver to the real one undoing all your work so you'd just have to set again.

Ok i understand, thanks :D