Good Morning Tomk;
I already bought a new motherboard from EBAY.
Planned on using the components in the existing machine.
I was in the process of upgrading Win Vista, when the machine died.
I have a stand alone Win 8.1 on DVD to install.
Then i planned to upgrade that to Win 10.
I suppose a Drive Partition is the answer for the Hard Drive?
I Listed the components that were in the existing machine.
Thank You for picking up my thread.
Marty
Components
224-3652 : Studio 15 Notebook (Studio 1555)
313-7352 : 8X Slot Load DVD+/-RW (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive + RAM support)
420-9170 : Power DVD 8.1, Digital Video Disk Drive
420-9319 : Microsoft Windows Vista with SP1 Home Premium Edition 64-bit Edition English
320-7722 : Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
313-7742 : Black Chainlink
421-0256 : Dell WebCam Central
430-2927 : Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11AGN Half Mini Card
320-7721 : 15.6 inch High Definition (720p) LED Display with TrueLife and Camera
420-7770 : MS Workplus 2008
317-0470 : Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 2.0GHz, 800Mhz, 2M L2 Cache
341-8425 : 320G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
410-2187 : McAfee Sapphire MUI, 36-Month
330-1753 : 65 Watt Spare AC Adaptor 3 WIRE
420-8157 : ROXIO CREATOR 10 PREMIERE and #45; Ultimate Burn/Authoring
311-8624 : 4GB, DDR2, 800MHz 2 Dimm
330-2937 : Standard Internal Keyboard
312-0694 : 56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
330-0171 : S and P Drop-in-Box Marcom for DHS Notebooks
310-8628 : You have chosen a Windows Vista Premium System
330-0255 : Intel Centrino Label