Thanks, again.
I did manage to find the 708610-601 model motherboard (supposedly new) for $700.00. Guess I'll have to think about whether or not I want to go through with this upgrade.
Thanks for the link. I also had read the 7 page thread where the guy ended up soldering in another part. Sounds like a much "quicker" solution but with significantly higher risk (I haven't soldered anything in 30+ years) and never on a PC - of course they didn't have PC's 30+ years ago.
Completely off topic, why is Windows Explorer SO SLOW
? I thought NTFS was supposed to really speed up searches and indexing. If you ask me, it's incredibly slower. It takes forever for Explorer to search on my system. The FInder in Mac is virtually instantaneous - and I've got 2-5 TB hard drives and 2-1.5 TB HD's in it (running off a 256GB XP941 PCie SSD).
My Z820 has 1-1.5 TB HD, 2-500 GB HD's, and 1-640 GB running off the 512 GB Z-Turbo.
Searchs in Explorer before NTFS seemed to be SO much faster than they are now.
Even at work, I have a laptop with a single 105 GB hard drive and it seems to take just as long to search.