Recent content by Mondoman

Hi, sr! Chi is right that you need to make sure you are starting with uncorrupted BIOS, uncorrupted Windows install. Make sure to only use 2 sticks installed while you are doing that. In terms of RMAs, my personal guess is that you will most likely get rejected on CPU or MB replacement under...

PS - Size-wize HP lists your original motherboard as "micro ATX", which is also the size of the motherboard I linked to in my earlier post.

Those wires look like standard USB and/or audio jack cables. From your original computer's specs, there might also be a Firewire (IEEE 1394) cable or two. For current use, all that really matters is USB and audio in/out. The motherboard has USB and audio jacks in its backpanel I/O riser area...

Your big price item is the motherboard -- for not much more you can get a fairly current motherboard, and an Intel dual-core CPU to run on it. A modern Intel dual core will be MUCH more able to support some gaming, even at a similar clock speed to an AMD CPU. This CPU runs about $50 USD: (and...

Minor note: the very first photo shows a National Semiconductor 4004 clone ("second source") chip, not an Intel 4004.

You might want to mention that the very first photo shows a National Semiconductor 4004 clone ("second source"), not an Intel 4004.

What drivers are you looking for? I'm running an FP-IN9 SLI (in non-SLI mode) under Vista. I usually let Vista worry about drivers, although I did recently download the 15.51_nforce_winvista_32bit_whql.exe nForce drivers (which don't say they will work with the nVidia 650i chipset, but seem to...

Nope, can't change video cards in laptops. I'd be looking at the pixel dimensions of each of the 2 screens, and pick the one with the highest resolution. Also, the P8600 has a much bigger cache IIRC in addition to the 20% faster clock.

Yes, it's safe. The only worry is that the CPU might not always work correctly while at the lower voltage. The CPU makers test each individual CPU on the production line and program in the lowest voltage value that should ensure that the CPU works according to specs.

Normal RAM runs *much* slower than the CPU core; thus, you can get in a situation where the core is "starved" of data/instructions, slowing down overall performance. A processor cache is simply a relatively small bit of super-fast RAM that sits between main memory and the CPU core. Just as...

Perhaps you are not using the correct program. You want memtest86+ (NOT memtest86 or memtest), v2.11 (from 12/08). Downloads are here: http://www.memtest.org/ I don't understand what you mean by "The commands are not letting me run them, ...". The program should run automatically once you...

No, the motherboard can run the RAM at voltages independent of the CPU core voltage.

If it won't even work at the DDR3 standard voltage, how good can the quality be?

My guess is that the P8800, even if you can get it installed, will overheat and fry under load. Of course, that's assuming the Asus BIOS supports the P8800.