Thinking about upgrading a compaq desktop with Nagami2-GL8E -A8N-LA motherboard. wondering what other motherboard will fit in the tower? this motherboard is 9.6 x 9.6. will a 13 x 10 fit in this midsize tower? plan on building something with 8gigs mem , 2 or 3 TB HD, 600w or more fan, etc.

HP 5189 1661 M2N68 LA Narra3 GL8E Desktop Motherboard AM2 SATA MicroATX

so what you do is open your motherboard look at the model number for motherboard and see what RAM fits that motherboard, wow I looked it up that is a old computer! but here is what I found for compatibility http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?47068-Asus-Motherboard-PTGD-LA-Compatibility

There has been a lot of confusion going on around the net. However I find the driver which should work just fine with your model. However the driver is from HP/COMPAQ and the model is M2N68-LA (Ivy8)

You can download the drivers from this link
Documentations will be available here

If you have doubts let me know.

This motherboard's full name is ASUS M2N78-LA and also used from HP/Compaq with the name: Viola-GL8E. A good replacement solution for this board is Zotac GF8200-C-E GeForce 8200-ITX WiFi AM2 DDR2-1066 (about 130$). Here are some links for this board: from Nvidia for specs and from Amazon. Take care that the original board is micro ATX factor and the suggested one is ATX factor, so you may have to check the available space in the tower.

Stelios

Any standard ATX motherboard will fit. You may need to upgrade your power supply unit as well.

The ASUS A8M2N-LA is the motherboard used by HP for the new D4500e AMD AM2 PC.

Here are the details:
Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS A8M2N-LA
HP/Compaq name: Nodus-GL8E
CPU/Processor
Socket: AM2 Supports AMD Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, and Sempron processors
Front-side bus (FSB)
2000 MegaTransfers/second
Chipset
GeForce 6150 LE chipset
BIOS features
Award brand system BIOS Keyboard combination to used to enter BIOS: F1
Form factor
Micro-ATX: 9.6 in X 9.6 in
Memory
Four 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets, Supports PC 4200 (533 MHz) and PC2 5300 (667 MHz) DDR2 DIMMs, non-ECC memory only, unbuffered Maximum HP/Compaq approved memory is 4 GB*
PS - as you can see the rangeis 533 - 667 MHz. I would suggest you call HP support and ask if it will support 800 MHz,

The problem was screen resolution was set to high. When I set down 1024/768, the problem stopped.
Thanks for the answer.

Frank

Max speed supported for your mobo is: DDR2-533
You will have to buy (4) 1gb sticks (2gb sticks not supported)
To use all four gigs of ram you need a 64 bit os.32 bit only supports 3gb of ram. Hope this helps!
Here is the specs :

ASUS A8M2N-LA (NODUS-GL8E) (DDR2-533MHz) Memory Maximum Memory 4GB Memory Slots 4 (4 banks of 1) non-removable base memory 0MB Machine name: ASUS A8M2N-LA (Nodus-GL8E) Motherboard
CPU options: Supports AMD Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2 and Sempron processors.
Chipset: Nvidia GeForce 6150 LE Chipset
HD Bus:
Front Side Bus options:
Memory Speed options: PC2-4200 DDR2-533 240pin SDRAM DIMM
Special notes:
- Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS A8M2N-LA
- HP/Compaq name: Nodus-GL8E


NOTE: *Actual available memory may be less w/o 64 bit os

Hi,

The SR1820NX is powered by a 2.2GHz Athlon 64 3400+ CPU. The Asus A8N-LA Nagami motherboard features the integrated GeForce video and eight-channel audio.
The Asus A8N-LA Onboard audio or audio card :

• Built-in Azalia 8 channel audio
• Realtek ALC883 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC

So you want the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R2.11, which has support for ALC883. You can find it here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/173933659/WDM_R211.zip

and the Vista one is here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/173930788/Vista_R211.zip

Hope this helps

Chris (ziraffa)