Advice needed on new mobo fitting

[davegriffiths]

hey guys... am asking this on behalf of my mate..

during the nasty storms a few days ago in scotland, his PC went caput...

it wont turn on.... now... he gets a green light on the mobo when he switches the power on, but nowt else....

hes been told, the power supply and mobo would need replacing.. due to being a dell tho, dell want £115 for the mobo and £75 for a 305w PSU.

so he wants to re-utilise his ram, HD, GPU, CPU etc.. and fit it all into a new STD case with a STD ATX mobo and PSU.

now.. will there be a problem fitting a new mobo in with his old HD due to all the installed drivers being for the old mobo..

would there be any other problems like XP not working etc?


edit: ohh.. forgot..... hes got DDR2 ram but its 400mhz.. will this work with the more modern mobo's?

 

[davegriffiths]

ok... he was planning to do a fresh install, but he wanted to get on the HD to get pics and music off before formatting it...

will this be possible, or is a new HD needed?

 

[davegriffiths]

is it possible tho, to run the pc with the old HD just to get this stuff off or will it just not run?

he wants to do a fresh install, but without having to purchase a new HD due to funds...