>>Hi,
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>>I just got some new hardware for my speed demon machine (Pentium 133 w/ 64Mb RAM) to upgrade it to a PII 266 and my question is this.
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>>Would I have to reinstall WinNT to take full advantage of my new hardware, or can I plop it in, make a few tweaks here and there (and everywhere else) and have it running? I know in Win9x you can just plop it in since it will automatically detect all the new stuff, then you can remove the drivers for all the old hardware, but will WinNT let you do this?
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>WinNT doesn't auto-detect new hardware, even with the limited PnP support in current SPs; you're going to have to replace drivers carefully.
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>>TIA
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>>Hugo Dahl
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>>p.s.: A quick answer would be apreciated since I REALLY want to start playing, er... working with my new equipment.

So, in other words, as I suspected, I would be better off to re-install from scratch to make sure it gets it right... Makes me wish I'd gone with Win98 instead way back when... Oh well, chalk that up as a weekend's worth of backing up and learning experience!

Thanks Ed, even though that's NOT what I wanted to hear :)

Hugo Dahl