Another option might be a Celeron mobo. Soyo makes good boards and I found this one online. SOYO SY-7SBB Socket 370 AT Motherboard Supports Intel Celeron (300A-500)MHZ 66Mhz FSB (Front Side Bus). SIS 600 CHIPSET. 1 AGP, 3 x 32-bit PCI and 2 x 16-bit ISA slots. Supports 256 MB with SDRAM. 3 x 168-pin DIMM slots. Award BIOS with green, PnP, Fast I/O. I found it in this address: www.onlinepcoutlet.com Good luck! At 06:01 PM 04/09/00 +0200, you wrote: >Hi PC-Folks; > >It's been a while since my last post, "Computer not Waking Up", where I >received advices that the problem was the Power Supply. The end of the >story was that after being away from the computer for a time, the computer >magically started working again. Because the two times the problem >appeared the computer was left turned on for a long time, and because the >magical resussitations, I'm quite sure that the problem was the P/S. Now >I'm looking forward to buy a new one. > >I didn't wrote the resolution before because after the time away from the >computer, I have been traveling, and reading my mail bacame difficult. >Only now that I'm a little more stable in my parents house, I can dowload >my e-mail with more tranquility. > >But this post is not about the P/S, is a question about Mother Boards. >Unfortunately, I didn't read the many post about this issue that were >posted in the last weeks. I hope that I'm not repeating a question >unnecessarily. Here it goes: > >My Computer is na old one. A PentiumI 166Mhz. I have 48Mg RAM, two >36.600bps Modem, a 16bit sound-card and a simple video-card. I have 2 >HDD, one old and the second new. The system is working fine, but it's very >slow (compared to stronger machines, like PII and PIII). In almost a >month, I'm going to NY, the final stage in my traveling. There I wanted to >buy another motherboard+processor to upgrade my system. The questions that >bother me are: >1) As I will continue using the old cards (modems, graphics, sound...), is >there a possibilty of InCompatibility between the (new) mother-board and >the (old) 'daughter'-boards? I mean, maybe the old cards are designed to a >specific architecture... >2) "As the case may be" (in words of ************), my old case, in spite >of being a very bad designed one, I'' not thinking of changing it by now. >My question: can the new mother-board be incompatible (not to fit) in my >case? >3) Does somebody recommend a specific MoBo? I want it to work with a >PentiumIII processor (maybe 450Mhz or higher). It doesn't need to have >things OnBoard, but have to have a lot of slots and this kind of things. >The price isn't a big issue. >Thank you again for any advice, reply, recommendation, web-site and so >on... And sorry for the lenght of the post! > >Thanks Again; > Sami Garzon :) > > PCBUILD mailing list is brought to you by: > The NOSPIN Group > http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org > PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html