Originally Posted by jo55

Did the tech swap out the CPU to verify if it is good/bad vs the mother board being good/bad.

Not sure. Will ask him first thing in the morn

I had the same problem when i was having my PC problems and using my main HD as a slave.

If your MB & CPU are over 4 yrs old you might just replace them both- prices have come down a lot and speeds have gone up

I got a MB & CPU with most of the other stuff built on to it already- vid, sound, network, phone, 4 USB ports, firewire - i think that is most of it.
so no other cards to buy and my same wireless card was able to be used on it also.
I did get a SATA hard drive this time around.
about 150.oo for all that at our local owned PC parts store - they even mounted the CPU on the mainboard for me - so i just had to put it in the case and connect everything- which the book was very helpful.

A: Techi did suggest exactly that, but for a new HDD which was not considered, he mentioned a new MB+MB may set me back some USD 175. Question is, he said, a new MB+CPU may not match the original BIOS+Windows XP software in which case I still could not gain access to my old HDD password protected data. An identical computer, like my old one which could be borrowed to start my old HDD, eliminate the I.D./Password requirement on my access aaccount will open the entire HDD to exploration as a slave storage device, in which cas
faster , quieter, did I say faster LOL??