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I'd bet that if you get a flashlight and really take a good look at that old board, you will find some capacitors on it that are rounded up at the top and maybe even leaking -- showing some rusty or...
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Nothing on the motherboard was touched. It was all just airflow.
And when you say "flexing", if you're under the impression we took the mobo out of the case or anything, it wasn't. We literally...
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you parents will see no benefit from anything more than the 4gb in the ebay system.
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That's a fact.
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Keep in mind that the OS you currently have probably came with the computer your parents have and is HP branded. It "probably" will not transfer to another machine. Look at the COA sticker on it --...
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Well it sux that a cleaning job resulted in this expenditure, but life's like that. No good deed goes unpunished.
Now there's the good side. Your Dad lands up with a more modern machine with more...
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Compaq SR5501P
Athlon 2x 4200 dual core processor
Speaking of which, I assume the processor on this mobo + CPU combo is slower than what he currently has? And/or does a MicroATX mobo even work...
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Definitely have him try to reseat the cables, the red sata one and also that black and yellow one next to the fan. I find loose cables can cause a lot of these problems. Doesn't hurt to double check...
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I agree. Check all the connections, reseat the ram and try the monitor (with cable you're using with it) on another machine. Check all the basics before you go off and buy a bunch of stuff you...
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At which point windows will tell you that your hardware has changed and needs to be reactivated. Is your father or you going to be able to handle this? I'm gonna assume it's running XP. Do you have...
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I can't speak for giant air compressors, but the hand held ones made for cleaning electronics, actually create less humidity than the canned compressed air that get's so cold at times that it creates...
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Isnt that more of a suction device rocky?
I am speaking about anything that compresses outside air and allows you to use that to blow out dust.
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My post was more for the continued "solutions" that keep coming in than for you. I don't think that anyone here knows your schedule, we can only go based on your replies and their frequency. If you...
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There shouldn't be a whole lot left to swap out. If we've put a new power supply in and a new mobo in (which has the CPU / heat sink / fan on it) with integrated graphics, there shouldn't be...
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Have you tried unplugging the HD and booting off the CD ROM drive?
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You would be a lot better off to buy the new board and chip you posted in #42. You would have to buy new ram for it, and you will need to do a fresh, clean install of windows because what you have...
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How is having to buy new RAM for it and having to do a fresh Windows install a "good thing"? It's also more $$$. By the time you buy RAM, it'd be a LOT more money (in their world).
My parents...
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You can use this searchable chart to make comparisons.
The scores are arbitrary numbers and only serve to compare one to another.
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Thanks...but I don't see "Dual Core 3.2 GHz" on the list. I ASSume that it would be the one that's listed as the X2 6400+?
Yeah, my wife and I both have 7 on our respective desktops. She...
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That would be the AMD Athlon II X2 260 that scores 1882 on Passmark vs your present Athlon 64 Dual Core 4400+ that scores 1279.
In other words, the one on eBay is 47% more powerful.
The processor...
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I guess that the warning should read... Don't use an air compressor that might have dirt or humidity in the tank.
I'm supposing that the air compressor in a mechanic's garage, is not filtering the...
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Dumb question...and it's sad, because I used to understand computer specs (re: processors) when it was just P3, P4, P4 w/HT, etc...and even dual core, quad core, etc. to some degree...but...
My...
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They have 7 64-bit. They don't have a DVR, but then again, they don't have cable, so they wouldn't have many programming options as far as DVR'ing programming goes.
Most of the TV they watch is...
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Why do they have to make the numbering stuff so difficult. Grrrr...
Because whenever I see "dual core" and "3.2 GHz", naturally, the first thing that comes to mind is 260. :/
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Yup! :nod:
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Have him go into the BIOS and see if it's even detecting the HDD. Sounds to me like the SATA cable slipped out, I've seen it happen a lot.
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Another thing to check if you can't get any joy out of this: Have your helper get a flashlight and take a very good look at the capacitors on the motherboard. They should be flat across the tops,...
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Need to have your helper check -- I don't really think you were looking for bad caps at that time.
Have you tried a different monitor, or a different cable from the monitor to the computer.
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Does he have a different monitor cable to try?
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:doh: lmao, yea my bad. Been a long day.
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My first thoughts were memory or video card. But if it doesn't have a plug-in video card, that kinda eliminates that. And while memory missing or incorrectly installed (or dust) SHOULD make the...
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The image link was broken, but I "tweaked it" to work.
I got a good look at his -- they weren't like that at all. No funky colors, etc. And everything worked just minutes before we "dusted it...
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To clarify -- the lever on the CPU *fan* was released -- and then I almost immediately reclamped it. You can see the black lever on the fan in the image I uploaded to post #33. The caps (capacitors)...
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I want to say what he has is an ATX case. Do micro-ATX mobos fit in ATX cases?
EDIT: Crap -- I just realized it says he has a mid-sized ATX case. Is that the same as micro-ATX? I am LEARNING a...
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That's why I suggested to take out everything and do a bench testing in the old thread to eliminate each individual parts. Chances are something conductive got to a place where it's not supposed to...
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Just got back from a workplace softball game. Today at work, I explained my plight to the engineers. One of them recommended to reset the BIOS on the motherboard. He said there are two ways to do...
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Just an FYI -- I don't think that's QUITE the exact same mobo as my dad has -- he only had two DIMM slots. The one you sent has four (two blue, two black). The one on E-bay also has four slots. So...
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From all of the theories I've heard, I'm guessing the spinning fans is the most likely culprit. When I first blew air across the board, it was mostly just the dust bunnies lying in the case and/or...
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You can buy a refurb PC from Microcenter for under $100. :nod:
http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.phtml?sortby=pricelow&N=4294967292
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I've got my eye on one in post 98. It's a full system (sans a hard drive -- they don't need one as they can just reuse the one they have ... and an OS -- which it already has a license, it just...
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