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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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.

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.

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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

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...

First of all i can't understand you!!!
second of all if you have a question regarding your own problem then you need to start a new thread. and please list as many details as you can and type...

another thing is you need to make sure that it hasn't harmed any of the other hardware in the computer before you just replace that one chip.

in most cases it is too expensive to just replace 1 chip on the motherboard and is cheaper just to buy a new motherboard. but if you are doing it yourself it might not be that bad. i would suggest...

it sounds like the internal power supply is going bad. it is getting power to the distributor but it isn't sending power correctly.

that would be my guess

the only problem i have is i have never heard of that brand. my major questions are what kind of warranty do they have, what is the customer support like, are they using cheap hardware to save money....

holy cow SP3 actually fixed something instead of causing more problems. that is amazing

possibly... but the whole Seagate thing is throwing me off.

if you don't know how to tell they should be color coded. and they should alternate for example mine are yellow, blue, yellow, blue

I do apologize for the confusion. i misunderstood the website that i was reading(i had to do some research before answering this post) i guess the maximum memory for a 64bit is 1exobite which is 1000...

A CPU can't make sounds. the Fan on the CPU can make some pretty annoying sounds. when you say Seagate do you mean your hard drive? to my knowledge Seagate doesn't make a CPU.

Linux should be compatible with almost any motherboard. as long as you can find a driver online or make one you should be fine.

1) quad is better
2)GeForce 9800
3) Yes. the 2nd/3rd hard drive will make for an easy dual boot system.

If you are wanting to spend that much i would suggest this...

wait... im confused. do you turn it on with out it being plugged in? and once you plug it in then the screen and lights shut off?

no problem

well there are 2 ways. you can either replace the NIC(Network Interface Card) or you can use a program called SMAC. this is a MAC spoofing program that changes the windows registry.

very true. in my opinion the maximus is an amazing mother board for gaming. everything on the board has a freaking heat sync on it. if you are planning to water cool, they make a water cooled version...

everything sounds normal. i agree with the new normal 55 processes is a bit much for such an old machine. Iexplore.exe is Internet Explorer. are you using IE 7 or are you using an older version. i...

a 64bit CPU will run a 32bit OS but not the other way around. the biggest advantage of the 64bit is that you can run up to 16Gig of ram. it is mainly used in servers.

sittas87 is right. 1 gig max per slot. besides it is a lot faster to run 4 1G sticks then it is to run 2 2G stick

just adding ram won't make the system faster. all adding ram will do is allow you to run more programs at once. if you want a performance increase go buy a Dual Core CPU you can pick one up for about...