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Guest
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
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