If you don't know what your talking about please don't post.

His computer won't take ddr2, if he had followed your advice he would be wasting money on the wrong part.

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This could be a plethora of different problems. it could be an overheating issue, or it could be a number of hardware issues.

My suggestion is, get as much info as you can off your hard drive and...

Does it just completely power off instantly or does it follow the shutdown procedure and log you off then shut down?

Yea. I have had laptops that the battery lasts like caperjack said almost 5 years.

I would buy a replacement battery and use it for a while, if after 18 months it does the same thing you might...

Is your original ram 667mhz? you could sell the one 2 gig stick and replace it with a 1 gig 800mhz that will solve your performance issue.

There are companies out there that make replacement batteries for all sorts of laptops. but they will Void your HP warranty.

The battery dissipating that much in only 18 months? That is unusual...

Do you use this a lot to travel? does it move around a lot?

one of the battery connections inside the case could have come loose? If you are skilled enough you could take off the case and make...

Actually the OS IS of importance. If you are running a 32bit OS you can't even use 4 Gigs. a 32bit OS will only recognize a little over 3 gigs. so using 4 would be completely pointless.

This was...

You may need to reformat the second disk. just go in and use partition magic or something like that and wipe the second one, then try and set up raid

He can't get to the OS, How is he supposed to check control panel? LOL

Have you tried running a linux live CD to try and acces the data on your Hard Drive?

You can load Knoppix into ram then...

Yea i got it figured out. there was a setting in my router to enable wireless G

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Check your BIOS and see if the cold boot options are the same as the restart options if they are not, make it so.

it may not help, but it won't hurt.

It won't really speed up the internet browsing, It may help the frame rate when you are streaming videos and make them run a little smoother though. It would be worth $50

Is some cases all of the PCI slots run through the AGP to get to the South Bridge. yours may be one of those cases.

So if your AGP is Fried then you won't be able to use any PCI slots.

You need to Zero Out both drives and start from scratch. make sure both drives are wiped and have no partitions then install the OS

For the first guy. Buy a new battery, they aren't very expensive and you can get one with more cells that will last longer.

For the second guy Mr Danishtahir87 Check you power options in vista and...

That graphics card suggests using a 500W PSU. If i were you i would get at least a 550 or a 600W. you can never have too many watts. lol

But the CPU over heating doesn't sound like a PSU problem....

Make sure you don't get the thermal paste on the pins of the CPU or in the socket. most pastes have a metal compound in them and it could short out your CPU/mobo.

And remember a CPU is a ZIF...

IT's weird. I just read through the specs and it says to use 4 gigs of ram they have to be 4x 1gig, but the motherboard only has 2 memory slots. I have never seen this before.

Are you running a...

oh yea,
Next time you want to upgrade your system, let a professional do it.

Yes, you probably shorted out your memory slot. the beeps it is making is an error code. try turning it on again and write down the error code. it should be like 3 short beeps, long short long, short...

you would probably get an error the first time you started up your machine. they have a max ram capacity for a reason

Let's just face it. no system is Ever going to be "Hack Proof". take the CIA for example, they came out and said that their system was hack proof, then all these hackers started hacking it. then they...

I feel your pain man. somtimes computers just aren't good enough from the factory.

"Mod or Die" that's my motto

you just need an adapter like one that normal posted. but a like he said, Most Mobo's will have at least one.

Yes... Warranties are good. as long as you don't void them like i tend to do.

new computers have SATA just to clear that one up.

The operating system shouldn't matter. what you need to find out is does your motherboard have a sata connector? my guess is that since your computer is old enough to still have ME you don't. let us...

www.overclockers.com

they can tell you all you need to know about overclocking and more.

that is interesting. the exclamation mark either means that is doesn't have a driver installed or the hardware is bad. you said that in re-installed drivers so my guess is that your vid card is bad.

The master is the farthest from the motherboard and the slave is the middle connector...


depending on how new the laptop is it could be SATA in that case you will need a computer with sata. is...

You might try searching ebay or something and try to find a replacement mobo for that specific computer. i think normal is right, i don't think they make a mobo that supports a new CPU and DDR 400.

667 isn't backwards compatible to 533.
you can get a 533 DIMM. my suggestion is take your computer so someone competent and tell them to upgrade it for you. any Tech who hasn't heard of double sided...

yea.... ummm... why do you want to overclock again? you say you don't want to overclock it much. but to be able to tell a difference in performance you would have to overclock it by alot. if you...

some laptops are maxed out on memory when they come from the factory. i had a sony Vaio that had the same problem. it came with 2, 256 sticks of Ram and i replaced it with 2 X 512 and it wouldn't...

People need to read the ENTIRE post before replying..
He said in his original post that it was a Pentium 4(single core)
and that he replaced the HDD on 7/08/08 so the HDD is only a few months old,...

sounds good...

I would suggest an 850W PSU.
Water cooling is pretty much a waist of time and money. they do cool other things besides the cpu but you have to buy either a special component made for water cooling...

at those temps it sounds ok... i would at least put an exhaust fan in though. i agree with willcomp. you need to draw the CPU exhaust away from the PSU. even with the exhaust funnel on the heat sync...

Fist of all the CPU doesn't beep. that is coming from a speaker mounted on the motherboard. now willcomp is right the beeps can mean a lot of different things.