Problem was solved...client is happy and I am $245 dollars richer. Thank you everyone for all you assistance. Client ended up purchasing a new case, MB and RAM from me plus labour.
Ken
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REBOOTING YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT
MEAN KICKING IT FOR A SECOND TIME...
AMD is definately your best choice. Microsoft is now endorcing AMD fully. The Athlon CPU and Windows operating do not have "XP" at the end of their names by coincidence. In the past Microsoft build all OS on the Intel architecture but AMD has surpassed Intel thus future OS by Microsoft will be...
Wow...I never heard of that test before..Thanks!! The new PS started and the old one did not. This tells me that the MB is toast also. Ihave ordered the client a now MB and just finished speaking with her and got a few more small upgrades for her system also.
Thanks for your assistance Dave...
I still believe you will see some difference in the areas I mentioned. The diffeence is not going to be mind blowing but you will see a difference.
DJCyber
Check and see if there is something like an "on screen display". When using a CRT monitor you can adjust the width, height etc. I am assuming that there is the same types of adjustments on a laptop monitor. Not too sure...but check it out anyway.
DJCyber
You will see some difference pimarily the speed that applications process information and on system boot up. You will also see a difference when you are multitasking (running numerous programs at one time). To optimize your new CPU I would also suggest to make sure that your RAM is around 25% of...
I tend to agree with you in part. I know that the motherboard was NOT damaged during transfer.
The system was sent to me by my client because she could not power on the system at all. She mentions power outages and construction near her home....my guess is that the power supply died (either...
OK Motherboard was simply removed from old case and placed into new case (CPU, Heatsink, Fan never had to be removed). The motherboard was tested on a rubber tech mat wit just the power supply and the On/Off switch attached(no IDE Drives or cards) Video is on board so no need to test it. Bus...
OK Pulled CPU and RAM and tested them in my system...they worked well. I will not put my MB into the new case just in case there is a problem with the PS I want to spare my MB.
Ken
OK I am just replaced a case and power supply for a client because system stopped powering up at all.
Installed MB into new case made sure there were no shorts on the case. connect HDD, floppy etc. via IDE Cables.
Connected power and reset switch, HDD LED etc. Plugged in power plug to MB(ATX)...
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