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Replacing motherboard
The client was over due for a faster machine but wouldn't have replaced it if the old motherboard hadn't failed. Actually the power supply blew and took the to a specific motherboard chipset and therefore are *not* transferable to a new motherboard - check yours *before* starting), unless the new motherboard is

New Motherboard & Old Hard Drives
If you have SDRAM, it will likely be PC66 at best, and you will likely need PC100 or PC133 for overclocking (PC100 and PC133 are the same price, so you might as well get the faster.) *Your motherboard is an ATX micro, so a new motherboard should be the same size, or it may not fit in your present case.

Lets Talk Chipsets
What would you recommend if I just forget about the motherboard that I have and upgrade to a new board and also a new HD. Will everything else (all cards etc) still work with a new motherboard or would I want to also consider upgrading all this? Would I want to get Win98? I really didn't want to tie up a lot of

building a simple cheap computer from computer swap shows ...
These will probably never be boxed and sold directly to the public in stores so the only way to get an Opus motherboard is to turn in a RRODed dead Xenon in There's also a school out there who are very in particular about which DVD drive they want in their new machines. If you want to join these fussy legions,

Warranties
Because many people ask about new MBs and upgrading systems I thought I'd post my ongoing experience - both to help others avoid some mistakes, and to get fresh advice. I know just enough to get in trouble so if I can make this happen, anybody can. I actually took an older system rather than her GW P5-60 - in case

Which cpu for my pc?
I just wanted to see what it looked like, but if I select it, the game uses 800x600. Is that because I have an 8MB Voodoo2? I'm able to get 1024x768 in FU2 and I'd need a new motherboard in addition to an expensive CPU. Manual: I'm not that impressed with the manual. The FU2 manual seems to be much better and

What an awfull couple of days!
Pin 39: something called "USER 1" on the II and II+, which can be used to disable all I/O decoding if a modification is made on the motherboard. ..... To get a new board, you will probably have to get a PC ISA-8 ("PC XT") Slot board (or an ISA-8/16 Slot board with the extra contacts trimmed off).

Options when replacing a motherboard
The motherboard is a M61P-S3. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128034 The chipset is a single chip, combining Northbridge and Southbridge functions. I wonder if I can trade them in for one SATA LOL) As soon as I can get the parts, I'll try the new cable, different SATA port, fanned chip,

# Air America makes it to Pirate Radio
I have a problem with installing a new motherboard for a friend in that I cannot get the on-board modem to work. The board is a PC100 Systemboard The problem is that the software included with the motherboard doesn't get the modem set up properly and I was wondering if anyone here could either suggest a config

A Smart Suite 1.5.1, ACPI and Mice tale!
Not that expensive to add if you actually need it. May as well get it onboard. Depends on how much extra you have to pay to get that and whether you actually .... if not somewhat slower than the onboard ATA controller. Yeah, thats the main downside, slower than the integrated drive ports. A new motherboard wont.

does windows require a reinstall if you get a new mb ?
Remember #3 is to either figure out or get professional advice on what will give you what you need. What you need, for example, is a faster computer. What will give me a faster computer for $500? I could get a new motherboard, CPU and memory... but would that give me the best bang for the buck? Probably, but if I

Web Enabling MVDB Applications
Although the fellow said the new processor wouldn't run to full spec on my current Mobo. Not sure if this is true, I'm innately distrustful of sales folk. Definitely get a new motherboard for many of the higher speed CPU's and RAM around now but consider going up to around the 3.0Ghz mark just to make the

Moving from W2k to XP with a Big HD
Of course, I don't see where I can order a new motherboard on Compaq's site, or Dell's site, either, so it looks like you're holding Apple to a double standard. Not at all. If you wanted to get a newer Mac motherboard, you have to go to Apple, however, they don't even do that, but I could get a new motherboard and

Conversion to RAID 5
If it's got bad capacitors, they are very easy to spot... but if that's the case...get a new mobo. The labor charge to replace the caps would be more than a The same goes for the motherboard. I think this is a troubleshooters nightmare if you are not in a position where you have the equipment to test your way

why only 1 IDE on new motherboards?
Because as I mentioned, (1) the newest Celerons aren't Slot 1 chips, and (2) if I decide to go the P-III route, I am waiting for the prices to go down and for the Coppermines to become available. And if I buy a Coppermine P-III, I will definitely want to get a new Camino motherboard to go with it.

Question on installing a new Motherboard
This will mostly help with transition screens, but it will also hurt whenever a new scene is loaded on several different simulations. Again, this will be tied with a motherboard upgrade. If you get a motherboard that has a UDMA drive controller, you will get the most out of that upgrade by getting a UDMA hard drive

Question on installing a new Motherboard
Well, your video card is good and you've got plenty of memory, so I were you, I'd get a Celeron + a new motherboard. If you're old motherboard will support the Celery with a Slotket then you can save money by not getting a new motherboard. A Celeron 500 will set you back about $115 these days from a decent mail

Buying new motherboard - Which one?
When starting the machine I do get my MSI Platinum motherboard splash screen for a second which instructs me to hold down the DEL key to go to the BIOS but if I do nothing happens, I just get back to the Boot Manager message. I began to wonder if my hard drive had faild so I installed a new one as the primary,

Laptop repairs
So you have some choices to make, and if your system is "down", you are going to be under pressure to do something quickly, I'd assume. Don Mahony wrote: Well my ASUS P4T-E is now toast because I flashed the wrong bios. I got it off the ASUS site but must have clicked the wrong one. In any case I have to get a new

Advice badly needed!
The symptoms are that I sit there on the PC and it suddenly freezes and I cant do anything, cursor wont move, cant get up task manager, cant do anything well spend a couple of hundred more and buy a whole new pc and get back up to date again - not sure what to do really, buy new parts or buy a new pc, if I knew