Help choosing/finding motherboard

[mcseguy9]

Hi everyone. I have a friend who has this PC - http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00541819&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=1141242. The stock mobo is dead so we had the idea of replacing it. These guys have very limited funds so we're trying to find just a mobo that will work with his processor and memory. The problem is that the processor and memory are all a few years old and I'm not finding any mobo's that say they specifically support either his PC2-3200 memory or his Pentium 4 630 socket 775 processor. Everything I find says it's the right slot for the processor but the lowest type of processor it says it supports is usually something like Pentium D. Here's an example mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138142.

Can you tell me if the memory he's using now would work in a mobo that takes DDR 800 MHz and above and if the mobo above would take his processor?

[Steve R Jones]

Food for thought-> Getting a Retail mobo to fit inside an OEM case can be very hard to do. Need to double check the wire connections to see it they are standard...not to mention the case design.

Then there the part about the HP Windows cd might not work if it doesn't detect an HP Bios.

[Ankerson]

You would be better off just building a new systems using what parts you can carry over from the old one.