>some chips are missing new instructions
Yes I've had that happen in the past when loading up an old Pentium 3 system with Win XP for specific use cases.
Which is why I was planning to let this system basically set in the corner managing my home network and hosting a VPN. I figured even an older i7 with 24GB of ram and a SATA 6ghz SSD could do that pretty well. Just replace the faulty Gigabyte mobo and drop in a newer larger SSD for $60 and it would be fine.
I'm having a good laugh right now because I just found some new Chinese boards for decent prices for this socket. I'm pricing systems out for future projects and a possible start up right now. So a few of my old systems & servers are going to get rebuilt.
One of the boards won't say if its ITX or mATX in size. If it had 4 dimm slots instead of two I'd order it right now. Some of the old Intel boards still have LPT ports on the back.
you seem that you know much of this tech stuff more than me, honestly i just dont know much about motherboards and the like but i do remember back in the day how much i wanted a pentium and yet i was stuck with a lower 486 chip and then a worthless amd compaq machine
my first system was a packard bell 486 xs 33 mhz with i dunno 2 megabytes of ram or something like that but it had a cd-rom and that was a mediocre multimedia machine (funny that you dont hear about that word anymore huh) but despite of it being mediocre its speakers were quite good and i listened ton of music on it. by then the 486 dx chipset were released and my rig was already obsolete. i couldnt even play mortal kombat on it lol
the best computers that i have ever own was an old i5-2400 and this one which is an i7 9 gen with double the ram and storage of previous computers. i plan this one to last me for awhile (knocks on wood)
might change my 1660ti in the future when it cannot longer play new games at bare minimum settings ...and yeah sorry for the rambling
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