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Pat you and your wife were lucky. I was beginning to see a new computer in your future.

I've been messing with these things for nearly 30 years (45 if you included the mainframes ) and they never fail to amaze me or frustrate me. I think they have actually extended my life, because I absolutely refuse to let them win.

Now that we are confused I'll hijack this thread a bit - what kind of trouble am I going to run into if I change out the mother board and CPU** of my current home built desk top? I've seen 57 varieties of potential problems, but nothing that is consistant for my XP OS. I have continued to have lock up problems that I'm tracing back to the USB connection area. Some days, no problems, today, 4 times. I've tried to download updated drivers from MSI, the mobo manufacturer, but to no avail. I'll make a couple more attempts but after Christmas/New Years week so if I 'disappear' for a while........

** different manufacturers Intel/Asus possibly

Originally Posted by IC2

Now that we are confused I'll hijack this thread a bit - what kind of trouble am I going to run into if I change out the mother board and CPU** of my current home built desk top? I've seen 57 varieties of potential problems, but nothing that is consistant for my XP OS. I have continued to have lock up problems that I'm tracing back to the USB connection area. Some days, no problems, today, 4 times. I've tried to download updated drivers from MSI, the mobo manufacturer, but to no avail. I'll make a couple more attempts but after Christmas/New Years week so if I 'disappear' for a while........

** different manufacturers Intel/Asus possibly

How old is your computer? It might be less expensive to replace the computer.

Terry

Originally Posted by Bug

How old is your computer? It might be less expensive to replace the computer.

Terry

The computer is a middle of the road CPU and mobo and home built, with a high end case, power supply and hard drive and is just a year old. The replacement micro ATX mobo and CPU at Newegg is in the $100 to $150 range plus a few hours of my time. I'm most concerned with what it will do to the XP/docs files, but of course can (will) save most files on a Cd, DVD or my exterior hard drive which is really a bit small.

Originally Posted by mopar34

Pat you and your wife were lucky. I was beginning to see a new computer in your future.

Don't say that, It's only about 2 yrs old, the CD went out 6 months after we got it. I still have to fix my other Dell (new hard drive, need to pull info from old one first), this one I'm using right now is a real slow one that my mother-inlaw gave me.

Pat