I still have the old proc in there, which will let me run for about 15 minutes in a dos environment before crashing. The moment I try to boot into any operating system with a GUI, it will lock up and just give me a black screen. I've replaced nearly every part on this computer, and I was was...
Here's the situation:
The CPU died on a family member's HP Pavilion a6720y. The stock processor was an AMD Phenom X4 9550. Those are not easy processors to find in stock anymore, but I was able to find an OEM 9850 at TigerDirect. It's a little faster, but still the AM2+ chipset.
After...
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