I'm on a Trash/Treasure/charity hunt

[Buddha62]

what socket is your motherboard???? i have several Socket A chips i could send you..... they just need a good home

 

[AllanD]

Yeah I've never tried it with a pre-built oem key on a new motherboard. Too bad i chucked an old Athlon I had, I'd of sent it to ya, all I got left is an 850 duron



This is where I'm confused, the COA for this "new" motherboard. Is this board an OEM (from a dell, HP, ect)? If not the COA will work on any machine. Sorry I just can't keep track of what's what here lol.

No, it won't people keep telling me it will but a PREVIOUSLY USED CoA
will ONLY work without issues on the MoBo (identified by serial number)
that it was originally used on.

If I HAD a "virgin" CoA, I probably wouldn't want to burn it up
on my current machine, infact I don't want to **** around
with my current setup at all UNTIL I have another functioning system

The CoA I have is tied to this specific MoBo which came out of an
HP Pavilion a735w, which although a SIX year old machine is a
generation newer than my current HP system.

IF I had a retail box WIN-XP CoA I would simply use it, but I don't.

IF someone has one...

what socket is your motherboard???? i have several Socket A chips i could send you..... they just need a good home

Yeah, it's a socket A and a friend loaned me a slower one that won't work with the board for some reason.

The MoBo is: ASUS A7V8X-LA

The chips called for are:
Athlon XP 3200+ Barton Processor (2.20 GHz, 400MHz)
Athlon XP 2700+ Thoroughbred Processor (2.16GHz, 333MHz)

I'm pretty sure a 3000+ Barton will work, but anthing slower won't.

Hey, I'm still looking to upgrade to a MoBo that has built on SATA,
which this one does have...


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[Jaymz9350]

No, it won't people keep telling me it will but a PREVIOUSLY USED CoA
will ONLY work without issues on the MoBo (identified by serial number)
that it was originally used on.

Yeah I wasn't positive on wheather an HP, DELL ect COA would work, I didn't think it would, but an OEM COA that you purchase separately will as I've had both my XP and Vista in multiple machines. The only down side is you have to call Microsoft every time you need to activate on new hardware.

 

[AllanD]

Hey, another thing I'm looking for is a four pin 19V laptop power supply.

I was given an older gateway laptop, an M350WVN but it didn't include
the power supply.

Allegedly the thing works, but without a power supply and a dead
battery I can't prove it.

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[AllanD]

Well, I got a P/S for the gateway laptop, got it working (easy)

Something said it needed to "update" and I discovered that even
though it had an XP-home COA that the previous owner had XP-pro
on it and that OS wasn't kosher enough for Microsoft...

So after several false starts I got ticked off, formatted the drive
and put a fresh install of XP-home on it....

Then I struggled with installing all the drivers and software I use.
Never did get the WIRED network going, but the wireless came right up...

Then the optical drive died (ominous grinding plastic noises)
and after using an old 2gig laptop drive with the USB board out of
a dead WD-Passport drive I was able to load the rest of my applications...

No sooner than I had the proper V15.0 intel driver for the wired network
transfered onto the laptop HDD (not installed, just the file transfered)
the Laptop HDD simply died... it doesn't "spin up" just makes squeeky wheel sound effects...

Anyone got a 160gb (or larger) laptop drive they aren't using?

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