Re: Seeking upgrade advise for motherboard change with oem windows
- From: Welsh Wizard <WelshWizard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:41:10 -0800
POP- You are right the ram is letting me down i currently have 512mb of 2100
speed ddr sdram i think, it takes 10min or so for pc
to start up and for me to get acces to internet after all programs/internet
security have loaded up etc but the 1 GB 2700 ram i've bought is for the
motherboard i want to put in as i seem to have been unlucky in that my
motherboards specifications are quite dated and don't allow me much scope in
upgrading to faster ram or processor.Will look into the links, cheers..:)
Paul
"Pop" wrote:
Welsh Wizard wrote:.
Hi,
Having tinkered with upgrading pci cards, various accessories and wireless
internet for my aging pc i wanted to upgrade my current motherboard to allow
a faster processor etc. Having read the Knowledgebase forums i am now quite
unsure about it all as its given me more q's than answers !!
My computer is 5 yrs old and as i'm studying for a computer maintenance
course i wanted to use my pc as some practical practice for me, without
breaking it !
The operating system is an OEM version of windows xp home saved on a hard
disc partition i believe, and i have a reload/backup cd for it. The original
motherboard became faulty 2/3 yrs ago and was replaced under warrantly by the
seller TIME Computers (who have since gone bust) , the product key for
windows on the case is different to the findings of the belarc program- i
asume it's because of the motherboard change ? The belarc program has given
me the "current" windows product id and windows product key.
My current processor is an athlon 1400, slow and struggles a lot, very slow
by todays standards and is the reason for the motherboard upgrade as the
current board can only be upgraded to 1800 , so hardly seems worth it.
I wanted to stay with an MSI "a" socket motherboard like my current one,
and i have bought one in readyness but am now worried that i am not in a
position to do an upgrade due to microsoft rules over oem xp, or that i may
have difficulties with product keys etc although the computer does seem to be
restarting itself quite often recently, the same problem as the old
motherboard before it was replaced !
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, do i go for the change in
motherboard or am i creating BIG problems if i do ?
Many thanks
Paul
Fits, I would think if you think an Athalon 1400 is slow, I would wonder why. What are you doing? 3-D games and
playing DVD movies maybe?
If not those things, I would make sure you have plenty of RAM. It's the most cost effective performance enhancement you
can do.
With that said,
Be sure you understand the Activation issues. You are heading into a high risk area regarding licensing issues. I
found this page extremely enlightening.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
Here is another outstanding reference.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html
Having walked the road and went from an Athalon 1600+ to a Pentium Celeron-D 3.3, Good luck and say your prayers. (I
don't see much difference in actual throughput).
Pop
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