this post gone past the scope of its intial posting.
Often times, that happens.
I was once told by a former employer that a computer network is like a card house. If you pull the wrong card, the whole thing may come tumbling down.
In other words, sometimes the smallest problems have a large number of factors.
that seems a little far out there. But that kind of scary to think about that happing with out me aware of it.
Computers do a lot of things without people being aware of it. In some cases, that's a bad thing (viruses, malware), in some cases, that's a good thing (I don't need to see all the 1s and 0s when I copy a file). In case of suppressing a Blue Screen of Death, I'm not sure why Microsoft decided to do this. Maybe they though home users would **** their pants after seeing one.
I will try what was recommened
Please do.
an see what will happen once I get a new board.
Please do.
There was a post your pc like fourm but it appears that not only just me dont see half of these at times.
Usually those are "for fun" topics (also known as "Show your e-peen"). They don't get stored in some database or anything for people to reference to whenever things go wrong. In a perfect world, it would.
In any case, if you really want to have the info handy for people to reference to without having to repeat yourself, finish filling out your Forum Profile Information under "Computer." So far, you only have "Pentium 4 2.8 GHz" showing up...
Now I can draw a few conclusions just from the CPU, though:
1) Socket 478 motherboard.
2) Northwood or Prescott core
3) DDR1 RAM
Since Socket 478 boards aren't available retail anymore, your best bet would be eBay for a new board.
Otherwise, save your money and put that toward a new build. If you go down this path, you'll have to get, at the very least:
1) New motherboard (of course)
2) New CPU
3) New RAM (DDR2 or DDR3, depending on the board)
4) New video card if you were using an AGP card (Socket 478 boards have AGP slots--new boards have PCI-e for video cards)
5) New power supply if your old one is less than 500W, a generic brand name model, or lacks an EPS12V connector.
