New Mobo, Old HD

[AndyM]

I have a replacement on the way for my mobo that flaked out about 10 days ago. I hope it will be an exact replacement of Abit BE6-II, Rev 2.0. If it is, and the BIOS is the same, will I have to do anything other that plug it in, enter setup for my rig's specs, and let her rip?
If it is not the exact same board, with a different BIOS, will I have to do some tweaking? Or for that matter, will I run a risk of booting from old HD.
I would have liked to remove devices first and then transfer as I have seen in previous posts but the old board died without much notice...
Finally, if I have the option of doing this without loss of data, I would like to setup a RAID array. Can I install 2 new HD's on new rig in a RAID 0, and leave the third drive the way it is?
I've seen posts from HAL suggesting this...but can it be done with an active drive that has lots of programs and data as the "third but normal" drive and games and such on the RAID drives?

[craig722]

Well....if you get the same mobo back,the only thing you will have to do
is to setup the new BIOS settings.

If you get a different mobo, boot up the first time into SafeMode and go into Device Manager and then remove everything in System Devices, except "Plug and Play Bios" or "ACPI Bios". If your old mobo had onboard sound and your new one doesn't you will have to remove the devices under "Sound, video and game controllers". If your old board had a serial mouse and your new one has a PS/2
you will have to remove it too. Never fear, windows will find all the new stuff when you reboot. What it doesn't find then try the CD-R that came with your new mobo, or your Windows O/S CD-R.

As for RAID??'s -- I'm outta here!!
Good luck

[glc]

If the replacement is another BX board, you should be able to just boot it up without worrying about the enum key. If you have to remove the enum, just boot it up the first time in safe mode and do it.

[AndyM]

Thanks for the replies. I just got it back yesterday. Installed all cards and inserted cables as before...and I'm back online. WIN98SE didn't even flinch.