upgrade

[cefathecat]

My beloved pcrs704 has died on me, and you've guessed..it's just out of warranty!! I want to upgrade the motherboard which is an ASUS P4SD-VL 'cos basically without going through sony I can't seem to find one, any ideas what one I could use?

[William]

Any compatible motherboard will fit. I purchased an Asus P4-800 SE for my P4 3.2 RZ502 when it died.

Be aware though that if you have internal card readers etc they won't have corresponding connections on a non Sony Mobo.

I ended up getting a new case and power supply too,

Finally your restore discs won't work any more and you will have to phone Microsoft to reactivate XP, after your Mobo upgrade.
I now rely on my second hard disk and Norton Ghost for backups.

[cefathecat]

sorry I seem to have posted this twice.

thanks for your advice......anyone actually got one replaced from sony?

[Thalamus.]

Hi cefathecat,

You may be able to obtain a compatible board from here, unfortunately they are a US based company but they do ship worldwide..:smileyhappy:

[kee-lo_]

I bet they're not cheap

[cefathecat]

I get one 'beep' when booting up, any ideas what this means?

[jammold]

So long as the system DOES boot properly and start Windows or another operating system, all that initial beep means is the POST (Power On Self Test) portion of the system BIOS running the computer completed all tests successfully.

So in non-gobbledegook this time = one beep at startup + successful operating system boot = Computer OK. lol

(And they said I was bad at maths too! The damn CHEEK lol )