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heh, apparently I'm a member on here :D the laptop ceased to function correctly after I gave it to my sister to use. the original problem reoccurred, but not as bad. thats about it.

crappy quality discs have been known to shatter in higher speed optical drives.

windows XP installed, and running fine... I'm thinking that cleaning the motherboard, and reseating the CPU, then reinstalling windows is what fixed it... hmm...

Processor: 3.0Ghz P4... dont ask me which one, cos I cant bloody well remember!!! Speed: 3.75Ghz daily... Cooling: Gigabyte 3D cooler? or something Motherboard: Asus P4P800E Deluxe RAM: 512 meg of elcheapo 400mhz stuff. Speed: a happy 500mhz Timings: *shrugs* Video Card(s): Geforce...

yeah, depends if you're playing games, or just need portability... I ended up upgrading my desktop a year or two ago, and I NEVER play games anymore!!! so it was just a waste!!! I have a laptop or two aswell anywya, but it was just a waste of money...

heh, this laptop is nice... now I'm pissed I spent $1200 on a Celeron 1.5Ghz laptop like 6 months ago :( oh well. I might try Windoze on the Presario again sometme, and see how she goes. thanks for the help...

F*CK ME DEAD!!! I installed Linix Lycoris, and it seems to run FLAWLESSLY!!! and it installed in about half an hour.... windows SUCKS BALLS!!!

duron 850 did nada... :P lol http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%20Athlon%204%201200%20-%20AHM1200AHQ3B.html http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Duron%20850%20-%20D850AUT1B.html I thought it woulda worked!!!

there was just some crap on the board around the USB connectors, and thats it... I'm going to try swapping the CPU with a Duron 850 I have lying around :P

sounds about right, although its a 20gig harddrive... :P close enough? lol

lol edit: I think its 1200 Mhz... :D lol

oh... its an Athlon, not a Duron... I just looked at the chip itself... :D

dont know any specific model number, sorry.

yeah, let me know what dos programs you find, I was about to look :D lol just tried safe mode, and its hung at loading "mup.sys" or so it would seem... edit: it just says Presario 700 on the laptop...

I dont think safe mode is going to help... havent scanned the drive, but there were no issues when I tried the drive in another computer... tried the laptop with everything removed, even the internal keyboard... :D I've just cleaned the motherboard abit, where it appears to have gotten...

it took 12 hours to install windows XP... I dont think safe mode is going to help...

I have recently acquired one of these, with the comment of "it doesn't work" well, it DOES work, BUT it took about 12 hours to install windows XP, and I haven't actually bothered waiting for it to start up into windows, as it seems it will take somewhere around an hour... basically, this...