Swapping HDD

[Zephik]

So currently I am on my fathers spare computer because my SATA HDD took a dump in my rig. This computer has a IDE ATA HDD and I was wondering if I could hook it up in my computer? The reason why I want to do this is because my rig has alot more Ram and a video card (So I can actually play games other than pong), where this one has only 256MB RAM and not even a video card bus of any kind other than PCI. So is there a way to swap it over to my rig or would something bad happen like a small nuclear explosion?

-SF

[onelegout]

Assuming that you're running XP, you would need to run a repair install and re-activate XP by phoning them and asking for an activation code and lying about swapping the hdd to a different pc....
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[Zephik]

Well I just took a chance, holding the power supply cable just in case lol, and it did some weird stuff so I activated some of the drive options in my bios and it started up and ran windows like normal. But now the problem I am having is the resolution is horrible (big and blurry) and it is set on 800x600 mode (it asked if it wanted to auto correct and I clicked yes). So what now? How do I fix the resolution?

-SF

[slytherock]

Install your vid card drivers ;) no joke, the windows drivers are not as good as yours

[Zephik]

lol Thats something I didn't think about... I have a PCI-E GPU but the dual screen was malfunctioning so I uninstalled it. But I didn't think that it was better than my onboard GPU being only a ATI Radeon 300SE. :hurt:

I'll give that a shot here in a second, I'm having fun on Google Sketchup right now! :p

-SF

[Airbozo]

you might also have to install your motherboards chipset drivers to get the usb or network adapter to work properly.

[nil8]

Airbozo is correct. Install your mobo drivers, then your graphics drivers and that might fix your dualscreen dilemma.