It's been 6 years since I built my last system, so pardon my lack of knowledge...

Anyhow, my trusty Asus P4P800 Deluxe with Pentium 2.4C ran for last six years overclocked to 3.2 without any problems. Lately I am getting random reboots and for the past two weeks I can barely use it, even after using completely default settings (running at 2.4ghz) with all default voltages on everything. I was getting random graphic noise where you couldn't see anything on the screen. I swapped the video card, problem is still there.

Is my mobo on its way out? If i just put new motherboard will the hard disk data be accessible?

Thanks

7/9/2009 12:59:34 PM

this sounds like a possible memory issue or you also fried one of the bridges, probably southbridge if its graphics related. that or its a general heat issue.

theres ways to swap mobos without reimageing the OS on the HD. google is your friend here.

try memtest first on the memory. if it comes back positive, swap out the memory, if neg, id swap the mobo.

also if its 6 yrs old, think about upgrading to win7 when it comes out in a bit, instead of putting xp? back on, as a fresh image personally to me is better than the mobo transfter, last time i looked at one of the how-to guides. its a bunch of driver messing.

7/9/2009 1:19:31 PM

Thanks for the information.

Yeah I really don't want to get caught into spider's web of driver issues. Any quick suggestions on reliable RAM utilities out there?

7/9/2009 1:24:27 PM

^memtest86+

7/9/2009 1:25:49 PM

Thanks

7/9/2009 2:06:37 PM