Quote Originally Posted by IC2 View Post
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