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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 882968" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>Actually I'm somewhat spoiled by choice, but SATA is not a way I can move forward easily.</p><p></p><p>The main issue not the operating system (XP SP3), but the existing two IDE drives (one for o/s and one for transferring/duplicating important data over to), and in particular the existing motherboard, which has been absolutely faultless in operation over the years (A78XN with 2GHz Athlon processor and 2GB RAM) but is showing its age, running dog slow, especially during startup - I can have breakfast in the time it takes to come on.</p><p></p><p>The other PC boards I have here have multiple SATAs plus zero or one IDE, meaning getting a SATA DVD drive to keep what I have in terms of running everything, but I then have to find different (DDR 2) sticks and possibly some different cabling for the innards.</p><p></p><p>Ideally a faster dual IDE motherboard would be the way to go as I could simply revert the drivers back to generic (as per last weeks upgrade for the other half - other thread) and then bolt everything I have back onto the new motherboard.</p><p></p><p>And, it would be nice to have some audio as the motherboard hasn't got a functioning output(well not anything I could get to work for much longer than a few minutes, but that might be me)</p><p></p><p>Additionally I can't really be without the PC for longer than a day, I 'run' the business with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 882968, member: 175144"] Actually I'm somewhat spoiled by choice, but SATA is not a way I can move forward easily. The main issue not the operating system (XP SP3), but the existing two IDE drives (one for o/s and one for transferring/duplicating important data over to), and in particular the existing motherboard, which has been absolutely faultless in operation over the years (A78XN with 2GHz Athlon processor and 2GB RAM) but is showing its age, running dog slow, especially during startup - I can have breakfast in the time it takes to come on. The other PC boards I have here have multiple SATAs plus zero or one IDE, meaning getting a SATA DVD drive to keep what I have in terms of running everything, but I then have to find different (DDR 2) sticks and possibly some different cabling for the innards. Ideally a faster dual IDE motherboard would be the way to go as I could simply revert the drivers back to generic (as per last weeks upgrade for the other half - other thread) and then bolt everything I have back onto the new motherboard. And, it would be nice to have some audio as the motherboard hasn't got a functioning output(well not anything I could get to work for much longer than a few minutes, but that might be me) Additionally I can't really be without the PC for longer than a day, I 'run' the business with it. [/QUOTE]
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