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Jinty, The benchmark test you just ran will not tell you which components to replace. The application compares your system to others. Using this information you have to decide which components to change to increase performace. Regrettable at the age of your system this may not be cost...

Will vote on allowing Bios to set CPU and Memory speed. I have noticed that benchmarke test do not always report the truth. Used as a guide they are fine. See: http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=5000186 http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?DRAM Bill, in Zhills

See: http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=5000186 http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040625/index.html

Nothing, provided that the case has enough stands to support the smaller motherboard. If you are using the E-machine case double check the motherboard stand placements and the port extrusions. for cases or just to drool see: http://www.circotech.com/ http://www.colorcases.com/cases.htm...

Memory chips from the different Mnf. and speed may be incompatable. Not a big iissue with XP but under load system may not respond correctly. See; http://www.shop.kingston.com/default.asp http://www.webattack.com/get/aida32.shtml This application gives information on make, model, and...

Also check in your BOIS

1]Key word's "my processor, and ram on the floor for a few min. " Not to sound harsh this is a NO-NO. ESD damage can occur this way. 2]Seen P4's pull from socket this way with no damage. 3] Not suggested to borrow a CPU for testing. If M/B has a problem and fries borrowed CPU you are out 2...

Other factors on random shutdowns: Win98 (mentioned) Heat, Failing power supply, Spy-ware/virus. Know that you have scanned system but rescan in safe mode. I've had systems in the shop that have required 4 passes to remove everthing. TSR's/system resources. Some say that system...

Keep your data backed up or off the hard drive. Your post indicates hard drive failure. Download from here: http://www.fujitsu.com/au/support/hdd/drivers/ the utility to run diagonsis on H/D.

You are looking for a RAID array. See: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/index.htm Also: http://www.arcoide.com/products/raidcontrollers/525baymount.html http://www.arcoide.com/technology/index.html

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html http://www.karbosguide.com/hardware/module3a2.htm http://www.pcguide.com/ http://grc.com/default.htm Scroll down to Shields UP.

download: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=181 This application will list every component in your system. Will leave which is better question to others.

Believe your problem is the BIOS since system worked w/win98. But I have some other suggestions that may help. 1) Do you have more than 1 ram chip? To check for incompatable memory chips remove one. 2) Have you ran the XP hardware compatibilty wizard? I'm not sure that it can be done before...

Replacing your M/B is a god idea if the case is non-propriety (dell, gateway,HP). Other changes would include, power supply, memory, O/S, CPU and possibly the Hard Drive for performace. 1) Any CPU upgrade less than 1,000 Ghz will make no difference in overall speed to cost. Most boards in...

Can't answer your case question but would like to point you to these web sites that may answer a lot of your questions. http://www.pcguide.com/ for Hardware On how to judge system speed http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=5000172 part 1...