I’ve been having problems with my computer since nearly 2 week ago.
Auto restart, bluescreen, lots of errors during startup scandisk and etc…
Checked each computer hardware very closely and everything was all right except my motherboard. I am currently using a MSI K7T266 Pro2.
I even had UPS to have stabilize power supply, not sure why it failed. I guess when it’s time is up, it will eventually spoil. Or should I say, bad luck?

If I need to buy a new motherboard, I’d need to change the processor (cpu) and memory (ram) as well because the new motherboard is not going to support my old AMD Athlon XP processor and Kingston DDR memory. Phew, the whole thing is gonna cost me a lot.

Looked around the few well known motherboard makers such as Asus, Abit, MSI and Intel and I’d still prefer MSI.
I’d like to buy MSI 955X Platinum motherboard which is the latest and best they have but it cost a bomb!
The second best MSI motherboard is 945P Platinum, and it cost half the price of 955X Platinum. I don’t think I need 955X Platinum because I won’t be using two built-in LAN (RJ45) and a few extra features.
Check out this cool motherboard that has 3 x ATA133 HD connectors and 4 x Serial ATA connectors. I really need the ATA because I have 3 ATA hard drives.
MSI 945P Platinum
I might go with Intel Pentium D 2.80Ghz and 1GB PC5300 of Corsair Memory.

Overall, it’s going to cost me around RM2000+ for this 3 piece of computer hardware. It’s worth it because of the speed and *touch wood* if there’s nothing wrong with the hardware, it will last me at least for another 3-4 more years.

Do let me know if you think I should get other brand of motherboard, processor or memory.