anyone have suggestions for upgrading to newer more capable motherboard in a compaq presario 1700xl laptop chassis? "The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artist

There is about a zero chance you can do that unless HP support shows a direct FRU choice. That is unlikely. Just sell it and get a newer one. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10

if you keep msconfig clean, you could run XP on that laptop. what is it that, the laptop can not do, that you need it to? larry

processor speed too slow and only 256mb max ram. bare minimum for xp. "The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artist