New battery runs down fast

John,

You can easily replace the battery. Just take it off the mainboard, go to the nearest shop, buy new one and stick it back on the mainboard.

No need to replace anything else, only date and time might be messed up.

A common problem with all laptop is dust. Sounds like you have 5 years worth of dust stuck in there. You should get a can of compressed air and blow though every vent you can! You want to loosen the dust that's in there and possibly try to blow it out and/or get it closest to the vents.

After that you should take a vaacum cleaner and **** out all the dust you can!

Dust inhibits air flow, alot! Its the number 1 killer of old computers.

It all depends on what you want to do with it. It is not surely the fastest PC in existence, and probably won't cut it for "serious" gaming, but it's more than enough to run XP and Office applications, provided it has also enough RAM of course.

Give Fremontek a call (I have no affiliation with them)
They know Averatec's better than anyone else I know, and can frequently diagnose via phone.

My bet is that youmight be able to "reset" or may need a power management board.

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Hi kaufam7.
this motherboard will work with your AMD CPU

Biostar M7VIG 400 Socket A+ Athlon 2600

you can check it on this website below

http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=M7VIG+400

best of luck
magpi

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For find your best solution.

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format your hdd fat32 with xp geneuin. then setup motherboard driver...

Are you using a travel adapter (converter)?

hi, from your reference i could get the info that your pc is running with the mainboard similar to FIC - am37,and with that the below mentioned processors are supported. Recommended Speeds: AMD Athlon? XP 2600+ (266 FSB) AMD Athlon? XP 2400+ (266 FSB) Model 10 w/ 256K Cache AMD Athlon? XP 2400+ (266 FSB) AMD Athlon? XP 2200+ (266 FSB) Model 10 w/ 256K Cache AMD Athlon? XP 2200+ (266 FSB) AMD Athlon? XP 2100+ (266 FSB) Model 8 AMD Athlon? XP 2100+ (266 FSB) Model 6 AMD Athlon? XP 2000+ (266 FSB) Model 8 AMD Athlon? XP 2000+ (266 FSB) Model 6 AMD Athlon? XP 2000+ (266 FSB) Model 10 w/ 256K Cache all the best.. sreejith