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 [IMG]http://tinypic.com/bczn[/IMG] [IMG]http://tinypic.com/bczo[/IMG]
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?
Quote:Upon checking the manual for the burner I notice it says, recommended processor should be a 1.6ghz P4
Dont put too much faith into that, that reccommendation is for other types of things (i.e., data transfer stability, reencoding etc)
Quote:Is it now time to upgrade?
I would reccommend an upgrade :)
Quote: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?
Good call .... not much difference between the XP2500 and the XP2600 -- both, with good cooling can send you to XP3200 without a sweat.
Quote: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?
