Re: Seeking upgrade advise for motherboard change with oem windows

Welsh Wizard wrote:

Lol, you read my mind , its been doing my head in since i put it on
the pc, the home page never loads up properly leading me to uninstall
and reinstall again without any difference ! I put avg anti virus
from grisoft on my wifes laptop to test it as an alternative to
norton, could you recommend anything personally ?




I like Avast myself, but I also hear good things about AVG. I'm not sure
either is better than the other.

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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

Welsh Wizard wrote:

Will look into it ken, the slowness sees to have become prominent
since the installation of this years norton internet security
package whick auto loads then seeks updrades for the anti virus etc
so the computer is really unresponsive till this has finished,
thought more memory might speed it up a bit :)


Then the solution to your problem is to dump Norton. In my view it's
not only a performance hog, it's the worst security software on the
market.

There are several better alternatives that are freeware.

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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

Welsh Wizard wrote:

POP- You are right the ram is letting me down


I doubt it. Unless you are running particularly memory-hungry
applications (e. g. editing large graphic imnages or videos), 512MB
is sufficiemnt for most people.


i currently have 512mb
of 2100 speed ddr sdram i think, it takes 10min or so for pc
to start up


My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how long
it takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed
is otherwise satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most
people start their computers once a day or even less frequently. In
the overall scheme of things, even a few minutes to start up isn't
very important. Personally I power on my computer when I get up in
the morning, then go get my coffee. When I come back, it's done
booting. I don't know how long it took to boot and I don't care.

However ten minutes is a very long time. If you do want to address
it, it may be because of what programs start automatically, and you
may want to stop some of them from starting that way. On each
program you don't want to start automatically, check its Options to
see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you actually
choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon"
option). Many can easily and best be stopped that way. If that
doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run line, and on the
Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to start
automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people
tell you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these
programs you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance
severely, but others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should
do is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and
what the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You
can get more information about these at
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it there,
try google searches and ask about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent
informed decision about what you want to keep and what you want to
get rid of.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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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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