Yes, it booted up OK on the newer machine but there were a couple of issues.
The machine is a Dell 745smm (Small Form Factor)
1. The sound card is not recognised. It is a SoundMAX integrated controller.
2. The video does not come up correctly. When gnome is exited the regular command (sh) window is left with overlapping lines and is not legable. The video controller is an ATI Radeon X1300 Pro and the monitor is an Envision 19" LCD.
What seems to be going on is the H Freq is set to 31.47 , V Freq 70.08 and PClk to 27.90 and the resolution 720x400.
When manually forced in xorg.conf with H Freq 31.5 - 48.5 and V Freq 40 - 70 and a preferred resolution of 1024x768 it works as expected. With these settings the monitor has a H Freq of 48.54 , V Freq of 60.22 , PClk of 65.85 and a resolution of 1024x768.