Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > PC repairs - can anyoen help?

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Robin
I'd really appreciate it if you can.

Thanks
Tim

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tim the board should be this spec. "Intel® D845GVSR (Sea Breeze) Mainboard "

Processor
Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor in an mPGA478 socket with a 400/533 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Celeron® processor in an mPGA478 socket with a 400 MHz system bus

Chipset
Intel® 845GV Chipset

Memory
Two 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets
Support for single-sided or double-sided DIMMs (DDR 333/266/200)
Support for up to 2 GB system memory

Audio
Audio subsystem for AC '97 processing using the Realtek ALC202A codec

Video
Intel® Extreme Graphics controller

Onboard I/O Connectors
Up to six USB ports
One serial port
One parallel port
Two IDE interfaces with Ultra DMA 33 and ATA-66/100 support
One diskette drive interface
PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
Three fan connectors
SMSC LPC47M172 LPC bus I/O controller or National Semiconductor PC87372 LPC Bus I/O controller

Onboard IDE
• N/A

Expansion Slots
Three PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus connector 2)

BIOS
• N/A

Onboard LAN
• N/A

IEEE 1394
• N/A

Form Factor
microATX (9.60 inches by 8.20 inches [233.69 millimeters by 208.28 millimeters])

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Blimey ;

One of the small chips has "SeaBree" written on it, there are 2 DIMM slots, there is a seperate NIC mounted in a slot, can't get the heatsink off easily to check.

But sounds promising. - how much am I looking at for a replacement? any chance of a p/ex for a spare PSU?
Tim

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these are lowend intel chipset boards tim, best option would be to upgrade to a better spec board but backwards compatible with existing hardware you allready have. From a cost point of view, its a better plan anyway, very little in it cost wise for a better spec board, and more reliable..
Only pence in it to be honest tim at this end of the market in desktop PC's.

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Robin
You have a PM
Thanks
Tim