- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Still, I'd go with what Chewy says. Switching the Mobo and everything BUT the HD seems a little like overkill, sort of like using a shotgun to kill an ant: it certainly is possible, but it's gonna be messy and dangerous, especially when you have a better chance of doing more harm than good. Just take out the HDs, reinstall drivers and stuff, and done. There's a lot more that can go wrong with taking out and putting in motherboards than there are un/reinstalling drivers.
Computers are pretty sturdy, they won't break too easily if you take stuff apart, but the less you move stuff around, the better.
As for the card, check your Mobo to see if it'll take that card, above all.
And on a side note, an emachines? I didn't even think they had anything of value in them. I used to have one back when emachines was a brand-new company, back when they were confirmed to make "low-end market, budget PCs" and it was...horrible. Have they changed that much over the years?
[Edited on 6/7/2006]