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No money.  This one will have to last another year or so...

We'll see...

Eldred

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That's what happens when you start playing with girls, Eldred. LOL!!
Things were a lot better in the old days when boys played with boys
and girls sat on chairs around the edge of the gymn and waited
patiently to be asked for a dance (or they danced with each other).
In them days, a guy had a little pocket money to spend on himself...

Got and friends who are computer savvy; maybe they'd check your
computer out for the price of a bottle or two of beer?

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Yeah - the one I have can be pretty damned expensive...  But I think I'll keep
her. :-)

The sad thing is that I thought *I* was computer savvy.  But I've never mucked
around in the BIOS, overclocked, etc.  I can build 'em from scratch, but I
can't tweak them?  This thing also has issues with any USB devices I try to
connect(camera and/or scanner, mostly)
Grrr...

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I haven't followed this entire thread, so you may have already tried the
following. Have you checked the memory? Years ago, I had a 386 that gave me
similar problems, and after a year or so, out of frustration, and I replaced
the memory. All the performance and stability issues I had went away.

Just my $0.02

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youth that doth not grow stale with age."
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Back when Eldred spent all that dough (way too much at the time) on a
Ti4600 I was the one YELLING to forget the vid card and upg that
mobo/cpu.  This was over a year ago ;(  Unfortunately I was drowned out.

I was just at Fry's and I see they have Duron 1.6/ECS mobo (I know not
very good) for $49.  Also they have a P4-2.4/ECS for $79 but requires
DDR.  I'm not rolling in dough either but I could find a way to get a
sawbuck if I was runnin 1.2gig cpu ;)

Mitch

Well, the fact was that I could *not* run N2k3 with the V5 that I had, so that
was the driving(no pun intended) force...

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You had a GF2 GTS that would have worked ok for awhile with a fast
enough cpu.  My point back then was you were putting the cart before the
horse ;)   Say for example you did get the 2gig cpu/decent mobo back
then.  Sometime between then and now you could have added something like
an Geforce FX 5200 ($50) and still been much further along FPS than now
with a very modest increase in overall cost.

Oh well dont matter now ;)

I would make a trade for a XP2k/ECS mobo but by the time you add up the
dam shipping you can just buy a new one locally and probably save $$.

Mitch

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