For the last few weeks my computer has been getting more and more erratic. Spontaneous halts and reboots – I replaced most of the parts on the computer to see if I could isolate it – Hard Disks, SATA Controller, WiFi Card, Graphics Card etc… and nothing helped. Linux and Windows had the exact same behaviour. I was certain it was either the processor or CPU… In truth I started feeling a bit guilty about overclocking the CPU thinking I may have damaged It. Anways – What an excellant excuse to upgrade Chip and Mobo… As I posted previously I invested in a heavy duty graphics card to drive my monitor so I had to get an AGP mobo that was intel socket 775 and if I could find one that supported DDR as well as DDR2 better again… I found this motherboard in the shape of an Asrock 775Dual VSTA (I think the VSTA is a reference to it being Vista ready? eek!) Very cheap on komplett.ie

The main board along with an Intel 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo arrived yesterday. In replacing my existing motherboard… I think I may have found the cause of my stability problems… A more or less fried and useless Mainboard and Powersupply…

Crikey!

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