I was just given a fully made up desktop bar hard drive and ram from a family moving house that needed to get rid of stuff (love my life), and it's only a couple of years old but I want to know what the specs are before I buy hard drive/ram to make it usable to see if it's worth it. Is there an easy way to do this? I built my pc so know my way around the parts a bit but reluctant to take the cpu cooler off to see the processor and the video card doesn't say on it as far as I can see. Is it possible to take my hard drive/ram out of my computer and put them in that just to check with software or will that ruin something? Any precautions I need to take before that (Emptying ram or something)?
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I was just given a fully made up desktop bar hard drive and ram from a family moving house that needed to get rid of stuff (love my life), and it's only a couple of years old but I want to know what the specs are before I buy hard drive/ram to make it usable to see if it's worth it. Is there an easy way to do this? I built my pc so know my way around the parts a bit but reluctant to take the cpu cooler off to see the processor and the video card doesn't say on it as far as I can see. Is it possible to take my hard drive/ram out of my computer and put them in that just to check with software or will that ruin something? Any precautions I need to take before that (Emptying ram or something)?
Thanks
The hard drive should be fine. RAM, not so much. Never mess around with that. The possibility of frying your motherboard is pretty high.
You could always take the parts to a computer place and see if they can determine the makes and models of the parts.
The hard drive should be fine. RAM, not so much. Never mess around with that. The possibility of frying your motherboard is pretty high.
You could always take the parts to a computer place and see if they can determine the makes and models of the parts.
Ram doesn't need to be emptied, and it should be pretty universal.
The hard drive contains your OS which is suited to your CPU and MOBO, and will most likely not boot up on the other pc.
The easiest method would be to use the ram with a bootable linux cd/dvd drive to check the specs out.
If the ram is not correct, as far as I know the only thing that should happen is your PC doesn't boot, you get a light or certain beep on your MOBO and that should be it.
Ram doesn't need to be emptied, and it should be pretty universal.
The hard drive contains your OS which is suited to your CPU and MOBO, and will most likely not boot up on the other pc.
The easiest method would be to use the ram with a bootable linux cd/dvd drive to check the specs out.
If the ram is not correct, as far as I know the only thing that should happen is your PC doesn't boot, you get a light or certain beep on your MOBO and that should be it.
I'm used to carrying around an SSD with windows installed on it between computers and i've had no problems apart from 'Not Genuine Windows' popups.
However, with that said its probably easier to use a Linux Live CD like AMC as you are less likely to run into problems where you can check your specs.
Edit: you are unlikely to run into problems booting from a drive with an OS installed unless it's for a different architecture (32bit, 64bit)
I'm used to carrying around an SSD with windows installed on it between computers and i've had no problems apart from 'Not Genuine Windows' popups.
However, with that said its probably easier to use a Linux Live CD like AMC as you are less likely to run into problems where you can check your specs.
Edit: you are unlikely to run into problems booting from a drive with an OS installed unless it's for a different architecture (32bit, 64bit)