On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, John R Pierce wrote:
On 12/8/2013 8:27 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 7 Dec 2013, John R Pierce wrote:
geez, its a 10 year old pentium-4, and not even a late p4, a middle aged 32bit-only one.... put it out of its misery, its been living on borrowed time for the last 5 years.
You mean since it was two?
i find most computer electronics have a half life of about 5 years. after 5 years, they get increasingly flakey. your motherboard is a 10 year old system, hence my 'borrowed time for 5 years' statement.
You mean it was rotting just sitting on a shelf? That is assuming mine was one of the first ones made.
the 865G chipset on that motherboard was new in 2003, and the Pentium-4 "northwood" CPU (I think thats what you have) were obsoleted by 2004 (processors started coming in socket 775 rather than 478 circa summer 2004).
that D865GBF motherboard was new in April 2003, and the final specification update was November 2004, although they probably did sell it for another year or so before it was withdrawn. It was taken off support in 2007, so if you got it 7 years ago (2006?), it was already nearing its end-of-support-life.
"The warranty wore out."