Hello -- I have a friend of mine who wants to upgrade from Win 3.1 to Win 95. I have my old 166 MHz Pentium motherboard w/ 64MB RAM which I'm going to install in his computer to replace his aged 486 50 MHz with 8 MB RAM (his funds are rather limited!) I'm worried that I might screw something up here (I'm only familiar with changing motherboards in a pure Win95 PnP environment). My proposed plan is this: 1. Change the motherboard (using his old 486 peripheral cards), and start Win 3.1 from the original hard drive (keeping the hard drive intact). 2. Upgrade to Win95 3. Change the peripheral cards to the newer cards from the Pentium motherboard My main concern is Step 1. Since Win3.1 is not PnP, I might screw something up?? Maybe I should switch steps 2. and 1.? But I don't want to wait around for a day while Win95 boots up on the old 486. Then again, since Win 3.1 is not PnP, it will not even know that I changed the motherboard? Hmmmmm? Anyone out there have any comments/suggestions? Ryan

First, make a cdrom boot disc, check here. http://www.halcyon.com/cerelli/floppies.htm Take his HD and put it in your pc and do the upgrade. Get Win95 running and then put the motherboard and HD in his case.

When I put his HD directly in my PC, won't the system freak out? (different motherboard, video card, sound card, modem, etc. etc.). I'm thinking that i should put his peripheral cards in the new motherboard as well? Then (hopefully) Win3.1 will recognize everything except maybe the MB. THEN i can do the Win95 upgrade? Then put the new pc cards in? That's my steps 1, 2, and 3 by the way. Ryan

It won't freak out. I have three spare hard drives. One has Win3.11 on it, one with Win95 and one Win98. I change them all the time. I take them with me on service calls, use them like floppies and put them in all kinds of pc's. If you're going to give him your motherboard, what's better then setting up the HD and Win95 on the board it's going to work with? The worse than might happen is you'll get some errors about the different hardware which you'll have to configure anyway right? Or you'll have to format the HD and start all over which is good sometimes. Go for it, take your HD out first.

HI could you email me immediately, i am a student doing an assignment and i need some information. i need to know how much it will cost to upgrade 9 computers from win 3.1 to win 95. any information would be helpful, thanks, Niki