hope i'v not pissed any one off...but my experiance with AMD's has cause me to say this.
They are suppose to be great for gaming when used with the correct hardware ( i work in a pc-store) but i'v found them to be slow and sometimes unresponsive for no reason even in new machines, unless we get "crap" and i dont see how but intel works fine to me. There is one thing i can say for AMDs tho- they can proberly take more abuse than intel chips and live but a lame horse is only good for so long.
In being fair to this topic that was started tho- on thinking that my problems with the keyboard and chip came from a lousy Processer was in corret judgement.
Someone either here or else where said change the batts, so in trying not to be nieve even i was using adapter power i poped out the batt and restarted.......vola the problems gone. I idid upgrade to vista before and used a dell installation cd with drivers also which hade given me a sticky buy working mousepad but no key board. i then did an driver install and the batt thing and i am good.
to make sure it was the batt even with power in i just poped it back in and in a min or two i started losing losing my mouse. i've ordered a new batt so i hope its batt alone and not circuitry on board.
Thanks for you time. Davidlahall