Posted by Freewheeling on 08/29/06 17:19

Wes Newell wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:22:21 -0400, Freewheeling wrote:
>
>> Anyway, it's irksome but it'll get sorted out.
>
> I saw Win XP Saturday fro the first time in my life. i'm not impressed. I
> chenged the MB in my brothers box. XP wouldn't boot at all, not even into
> command line mode. I knew from reading that a repair install should fix
> it, but I couldn't get that option. After a little web searching dicovered
> it won't work if you have Go Back installed and enabled, which he did.
> Disabled that and then ran a repair install and got everything working.
> So, boot the install cd and do a repair install. That should get it
> working.
>
I took the ATI board back. A question about the Sempron Socket 754
3000+. The processor speed is listed at 1.8Ghz, so strictly speaking
it's only marginally faster than the Thunderbird at 1.4Ghz. Would it be
advisable to get a newer motherboard *and* a faster CPU? Alternatively,
can the Sempron be overclocked to get it above 2.0 Ghz? If a new
motherboard, what would you suggest?

Also, there appear to be 2 flavors of the same CPU: 90nm SOI and 130nm
SOI. Does it matter which? Finally, will my board take a 754 pin?
It's supposed to be a Socket A. What's the difference? Just curious.

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