Looks like my son's Socket A 2100 just died last night... no posting nada... tried switching out the CPU, PSU, Ram etc... only thing I didn't have to switch out is a Mobo... oh well... maybe get him a nice duallie this time around...

what do you have in mind? for this setup?

I have a Leadtek NF2 socketA board sitting around doing nothing is you want to make the boy wait.

thanks Bull... he's away for the summer... won't be back until Labour Day...

So... we have this - http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...&CatId=2019

and this - http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...&CatId=2019

Both have VGA out... that's okay... the MSI board has 2 slots for Ram, the Biostar has 4 slots... & only a $8.00 Can diff. in price...

You know your gonna have to pretty much build a new computer. The old 2100's parts wont work with the new boards. You might get away with a PSU. The case you can use though

Yeah... I know painer... it's already got a 480W PSU in it... btw... I just bought the stuff about 20 mins. ago... went with the Biostar bd., a 64-3800+ dual core, 2 Gigs of Ram & a cooler... gonna attack it maybe this evening... hopefully, I won't have to touch Windows XP & it will be just a matter of installing the drivers for the new board...

Soooo... the new rig is up & running... had to do a repair on windows, reregister, download all the updates & everything's done!

Wow, that was fast! How's the performance of the built-in video? How much RAM does it grab?

I cheated... there's 2 TigerDirect retail locations within a 20 minute drive from home... 1 is in the North West corner & the other in the South East corner...another one about 1 hour away, just a bit north of Toronto... the onboard video is a GeForce 6100 using 256M of the main memory... I have 2 G. in the machine with space for another 2 G. for a max of 4 G.