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2006-06-17 04:44:13
Aardcore
Member
+60|7151|USA, Arizona
Alright so I've come to face the reality that it truly is a dead cause, there's absolutely nothing I can do to fix my situation when all I wanted to do was change the motnerboard in hopes that the chipsets of a 462 Socket motherboard would accept either my ATI x700 Radeon Pro or nVidia GeForce 6800GT but I've come to face that it just isn't worth the trouble and even if I tried, it probably wouldn't work.

Seems like if I wanted to even try, I'd end up needing to make a whole new computer that still uses an AGP aperture just to use the cards I have since that's all they run under, 4x/8x. I'm done, thanks for everyone who pitched in to help, but I'm done. The a420n is truly running it's limit on me but I give up on it, I'll just have to settle with Low, Medium, Low, Low, Low, Off, Off, 2x, Medium settings on BF2 till God knows when.

Technology has gotten the best of me again, and I'm far, far behind, as usual.
2006-06-17 05:31:32
max
Vela Incident
+1,652|7005|NYC / Hamburg

Aardcore wrote:

Alright so I've come to face the reality that it truly is a dead cause, there's absolutely nothing I can do to fix my situation when all I wanted to do was change the motnerboard in hopes that the chipsets of a 462 Socket motherboard would accept either my ATI x700 Radeon Pro or nVidia GeForce 6800GT but I've come to face that it just isn't worth the trouble and even if I tried, it probably wouldn't work.

Seems like if I wanted to even try, I'd end up needing to make a whole new computer that still uses an AGP aperture just to use the cards I have since that's all they run under, 4x/8x. I'm done, thanks for everyone who pitched in to help, but I'm done. The a420n is truly running it's limit on me but I give up on it, I'll just have to settle with Low, Medium, Low, Low, Low, Off, Off, 2x, Medium settings on BF2 till God knows when.

Technology has gotten the best of me again, and I'm far, far behind, as usual.
sorry to hear you have given up. you can at least try to oc your graphics card a bit. That should make waiting a bit less bad
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2006-06-17 05:34:20
[BBF*EF]Stuka
Junkers Ju 87
+58|7015|Phoenix, AZ
Yeah, as max said go get ATItool, and try to OC your card a bit.  http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
2006-06-17 19:55:35
Aardcore
Member
+60|7151|USA, Arizona
You guys are all saints, probably the nicest guys on BF2 I've met so far without a single flame or an lol to mock my lack of technology for a decent gaming experience. I'm currently on my fiancee's computer right now though because about an hour after I wrote this post, tinkered around with my computer and put it back together, the computer died on me.

It finally just gave up on me and put it's graveyard rose up on itself.... just my luck, luckily I get to use her computer now but still... the fact my own computer had to die out on me like that, really crappy. I'd OC my card if I could, but I can't since dead computers tell no codes.
2006-06-17 19:59:40
Snipedya14
Dont tread on me
+77|7132|Mountains of West Virginia
What were you tinkering with?

And did you discharge static before doing so?

Any Beeps?
2006-06-17 20:02:38
Aardcore
Member
+60|7151|USA, Arizona

Snipedya14 wrote:

What were you tinkering with?

And did you discharge static before doing so?

Any Beeps?
It beeps and all that, probably just the harddrive but I'm getting so sick of how that damn thing's working I doubt I even wanna try working with it even more. I discharged myself before everytime I used the computer, ya know, touch something else to ground myself so static doesn't discharge, but fact of the matter is I'd rather not deal with it anymore, I don't wanna waste my money on buying another harddrive.

It only uses ATA anyway, SATA's in, it's old, it uses AGP, and PCI-E's potential is swarming like a horde of locusts. Working with the a420n HP PC isn't worth it.
2006-06-20 12:10:51
MaddOps
Who the hell elected you leader of this outfit?
+55|7035

Aardcore wrote:

I'm being taunted by the very thing I don't have and that's a decent videocard and I'm being held back by my motherboard that's housed within this computer I've had and I'm wondering if a certain thing I can do to it can be done and that's to upgrade the thing from the inside out.

I'm currently using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro but I have an ATI x700 Pro and a GeForce 6800 but my motherboard cannot support either of them which is very, very sad since that very thing is holding me back, and all that it's being held back by is the motherboard itself. I thought about something that I could possibly do and that's just replace the motherboard in the computer itself and MAYBE that could help the situation but I also considered the flaws that could happen to it, such as:

Since this is a stock computer made by HP themselves, would me tinkering with the insides itself hurt the build altogether?

Also, is it even possible? I don't even know what kind of socket it uses but I've come to know that it isn't a 939 Socket. It still uses the Athlon XP series CPU but I know I've seen other people run XP series CPU motherboards and still be able to use 6800's, even some other nearly high end, decent mark videocards that still use AGP.

I'd get another computer but I'm dreadly under budget and need to figure out how to compensate since I have good videocards available, but I JUST CAN'T USE THEM BECAUSE OF AN INCOMPATIBLE MOTHERBOARD!

So I'm asking you for help fellow Battlefield 2 brethren, can anyone help me answer the question:

Can replacing a motherboard in a premade factory computer like this Hewlett-Packard a420n be done for the sole purpose to run a much better videocard, and safely?
Yes you can.  But it may be expensive because they use smaller cases and smaller 3 PCI motherboards are usually more expensive. 

I did it for my brothers and I was a factory builder for HP for a long while.  But I'd recommend taking what you can and building with new components in a new case that breathes better with a bulked up power supply.  The stock power supplies were lucky if they were 230 to 300.
2006-06-20 14:32:37
montypythizzle
Member
+21|7040
if your case is pretty tall for example if its grey and blueish than its standard atx
all you will need is new motherboard although i would get new psu since you are putting pretty powerful card in there
there is an epox from newegg.com socket a or 462

its 80 bux ive had no problems with it so far and you can overclock!
2006-06-21 02:33:30
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|7154|Riva, MD
Most mobos that use PCI-e are too big for an OEM case.

 

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