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I recently upgraded a friends processor to an Athlon XP 3000+ Barton core. He has an Abit KT7E motherboard which is supposed to support this processor if the bios is flashed. I followed all the steps exactly on Abit's website to flash the bios, but the computer will not accept the new...

Thanks for the tip. I will have to try it. I tried to boot in Safe Mode and the XP files started loading then froze. I think you may be right on with this suggestion.

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I recently upgraded my friends processor and memory. I updated the BIOS so it would recognize the new processor, but now Windows will not boot. If I clear out CMOS, the computer will boot to Windows, but the processor and memory speeds are limited. Mobo: ABIT KD7E Processor: AMD Athlon XP...