Hi At the moment i have a - EPOX EP-8KTA2 (via KT133 AGPset) Main board One stick of 512mb 168pin PC133 One stick of 256mb 168pin PC133 AMD Athlon 1200 mhz ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon Creative Live 1024 sound card 30gb Maxtor Hard Drive 80gb Western Digital SD Hard Drive Windows XP Professional, version 2002, service pack 1 Well i recently installed an LG GSA4120B 12xDVD DUAL R/RW/RAM Int Ide Burner, but the system crashes halfway through burning most of my projects with the following screens Upon checking the manual for the burner i notice it says, recommended processor should be a 1.6ghz P4 Is it now time to upgrade? I was thinking of one of the following- Asus A7V8X-X with an AMD Athlon XP2500 (£87:45) or with the XP2600 333mhz 512 L2 Cache Barton (£100:05) Is there much difference? Also what is the scripit with a new motherboard, can i just stick my old hardrive on with the original operating system intact, or will i have to format and reinstall the OS again? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks again. Copper
Dont put too much faith into that, that reccommendation is for other types of things (i.e., data transfer stability, reencoding etc) I would reccommend an upgrade Good call .... not much difference between the XP2500 and the XP2600 -- both, with good cooling can send you to XP3200 without a sweat. You will most definitely have to reformat.
