if you snore, your brain gets less oxygen than it should, which is bad, because the mechanisms that correct such things do not work while sleeping, only when awake
physics calculations still need to be done, methinks.
it's not the "driving thinking" that the cpu needs to do. it's the physics engine.
and just so that you don't get the wrong impression that i just want to be a buzzkill
you can get 2GB of ddr266 on it working, maybe, but it (the extra GB) won't help lfs. if you manage to use higher clocked ram (ddr333 is the max that chipset supports and i'm talking about 2x512 now) and drop the latencies, you might gain a bit of performance. also, the fastest cpu that mobo supposedly supports is the 2.6 northwood which is not any faster than your current cpu.
may i suggest you sell this pc for peanuts and with those peanuts buy a new one?
a phenom II x2 even the cheapest one that is like 65 gbp is leaps and bounds faster than what you have
coupled with a mobo that supports ddr3 (100gbp) you will
near the battery there will be a jumper with "CLR" or "CMOS" or "RST" under it.
you turn off your computer, take out the blue thing you see in the pic and connect it to the two other pins (2-3) for a second and then put it back to where it was (1-2)
no, it isn't EDIT: well, ok, it's a bad habbit, but not a bad choice when running out of ideas and the pc is stubborn LOL
my father, ooooold coder, on the phone:
"good evening... yes, everything here is fine... oh... i'm listening... yes... yes... ah... well i can't be of much help from the phone but... try wiggling the cabl-- oh... i see... Well you can try something... turn it off and whack it, not too hard but enough... yeah... ok i'll be waiting"
hangs up and tells me "naaaah... they won't possibly try it..."
5 minutes later, phone rings
"Yes? Yes... oh, did it?... Ahahaha, good! now immediately get an external drive and start copying files... yes... well, glad to have been of help!"
but srsly? sounds like your hardware is dying. either the mobo or the psu. hopefuly none
wait... you said it works in safe mode but not properly? which means that the vid card might fail when its driver gets loaded but work with the generic driver (Without acceleration).