[computer-tech-support: 7907] Re: motherboard replacement

Since this topic seems to have gone the rant route, I will try to sum
up and close...

Yes, you can match the model number, replace the mobo and go about
your business, do many of us recommend this route, probably not.
Putting money into a computer that could likely die within a couple
weeks is your business, it might have 10 years left on it, who
knows.

Best place I have seen to get used/part PCs/Mobos - EBay...
I just replaced a mobo for someone in a Dell Inspiron 1525 I believe,
the laptop was around 500 new, and the used mobo on ebay was like 70
bucks, now working well...

Windows XP requires 64MB of memory out of the box. Recommended
128MB.
Windows ME is built on a windows 98 kernel, so if someone doesn't like
windows 98 and likes ME I find it very very funny...

XP is built on Windows 2000. If you think Windows XP is too much for
the machine to handle, then get Windows 2000, since it only requires
32MB minimum out of the box, 64MB recommended.

Simply put, you can buy NEW desktop machines from Wal-mart, newegg,
tigerdirect, amazon, wherever for around 200-300 dollars. By the time
you spend money on a new motherboard and TIME to replace it, you might
as well have purchased a budget system, or built a new one yourself.

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