Posts by dcc

If you can access the BIOS check the temperature of the CPU. If you don't know how to access the BIOS you could download Everest Home Edition, this is free.

It would also help if you provide the make and model of your computer.

Does the computer get to where you see the desktop before it freezes?

You can also use a utility like Acronis Disk Director, This link will take you to a site that will offer several free options.

Before you do anything back up your files as things can go wrong and you could loose them.

Being prepared is your best protection, make sure to read and understand the instructions.

Just for kicks and grins download Asquared and run it. It's free and is good at finding worms, trojans, and other goodies.

I'm guessing that you have already looked in the task manager to see what is running. Is there anything other than the notepad.exe?

The noise I was asking about would be when the computer first starts up. Hard drives that are going out sometimes will make clicking noise when it spins up.

Can you do a last good configuration?

Does double post get you twice the response?

Did you read and understand the instructions?

At first I thought you were pulling an early April fool gag, that model number doesn't produce any results when I googled it. But I was able to find that a compaq evo desktop d510sff has that PSU connector. As for an adaptor...I wish you the best of luck on that one. If you want to try modifying an ATX PSU to that connector you can find the pinout here.

Great minds think alike don't they dcc i was thinking same thing older AMD and heat.LOL

Yeah...you must have posted a nanosecond before I did.:lol:

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Sounds like you incandecentplasmothermalator has gone south.

Is your hdd making clicking noises while this is going on?

Not much to go on there sport. Care to expand on that just a little. You could start by providing the make and model of your computer, and then explain what it is or isn't doing. Ex. do your fans come on when you power up, do the LEDs come on, does it have smoke pouring from the back...?

Never has the phrase caveat emptor been more applicable than with good ole ebay.

Does this mean that you have no trouble after you boot from the BIOS or you have no trouble while you're in the BIOS?

Just curious here, is your date and time accurate? If not you need to replace the CMOS battery.

That doesn't sound good, I wish you luck.

I would still like to know how you managed to pull those pins loose, those pins a soldered to the pc board.

Is this the case fan or the one on the CPU heat sink?

I can't see his parents placing the password there without having a compelling reason to them. Your intervention could place you right in the middle of a situation that you my regret. I would pass on this involvement.

Do you have a spare IDE cable that you can try?

It could be the CPU is overheating. Check the connection of the heat sink. Did you use thermal compound when you put the CPU and the heat sink together?

Did you try the modules one at a time?

How did you test the PSU?

Does the fan on the CPU run?

Does the tray on you optical drive open?

If the keyboard is connected via USB it will need to be enabled in the BIOS. Do you have an old PS2 keyboard that you can use to access the BIOS?

Plugging in anything to or connected to the motherboard with the power on is a bad idea.

I didn't see any parallel port connections for that scanner, it should just be a USB connection.

Have you contacted the manufacturer to see if they would send you the driver disc, you really should have the disc as there is a lot of information on it.

How in the world did you manage to break off those pins? I would have to work at that to accomplish that.

If it was just the jumper pins I would say to open it up and solder the configuration permanently, but I have no idea how you are going to replace those IDE pins.

Between the beep and the keyboard LEDs staying on I would guess that you have some thing stopping the POST.

Look in you user's manual to see what the beep indicates.

I personally make most of my purchases from newegg, but in this case I like the motherboard selections at tiger direct better.

I can't make your decision for you, you will have to decide what you need, how many PCI and PCI-E slots are you going to need, how many SATA connections and will you want SATA2 connections. Do you want to be able to go SLI, do you want to run dual CPUs, and the list goes on. You need to define what you want to build.

When you say restart do you mean do a warm boot? Or are you starting cold?

Have you tried clearing the CMOS?

Did you check out the motherboard CPU combos offered at Tiger Direct?????

Which core 2 duo are you going to use.

What are you going to use this computer for?

What seems to be the problem figuring out the motherboards at newegg?

You also might want to take a look at the motherboard CPU kits a Tiger Direct.

some pcs have a max ram per slot

e.g my old pc has max total ram of 384mb and max per slot of 128

SIW will show the maximum capacity, it will also show how many expansion slots there are, divide the capacity by the number of slots for the maximum capacity for each slot.

With a motherboard that uses PC100 and PC133 there are a couple of potential problems with RAM. Some motherboards are picky about what RAM they like, my MSI K7 Pro didn't like high density modules. Some motherboards are specific where they want to see the larger modules, like the larger module should go in the first slot.

If you download the SIW it will take a lot of the guess work out, after that you will know if the amount represents what you have installed. If you are still missing that 64MB try removing all but one module and trying each one separately.

You can use the recovery console to repair or replace the boot initiating file.

Instructions can be found here.

You may need to enable the USB mouse in the BIOS.

Did you download the SIW and look to see what it listed for you total and individual modules?

I should have added this originally...it's a free download.

HI Stacey, this is an area that I don't have a great deal of experience in. You would be better off posting a new thread in the Microsoft Windows 2000/XP forum addressing this question. That forum is the appropriate one, and you should get more responses on a new thread opposed to tacking onto this one.

Congratulations on getting you system back to normal!

Microsoft has a comprehensive article on multiple-boot configurations, it can be read here.

Have you tried using the recovery disc that came with you computer?

Hello My dear,
I had asked a question regarding the installation of win ME. But you make a ASS. I am well aware with Win ME. Any way thanks for your kind representation.

It is unfortunate that you find my comment regarding ME derogative, I'm only stating what seems to be a general consensus in most all forums that I have read about it in. Have a nice day.

Like Caperjack said...lol, technology moves way to fast for that to happen. The computer that I built four months ago is old technology now. Computers generally will stay usable without problems for three or four years, as long as you don't abuse it like overclocking it. About that point things are beginning to get tired and start failing. Then again I have a 1998 Compaq that just keeps chugging away. The CD-ROM sounds like it's sawing through the disc, but still works, go figure.

Having an unlimited budget is not always the answer, you can throw a gob of money into a machine that could be accomplished for much less. I'm a practical person who doesn't need the case with all the lights and LED displays, the modular PSU connectors, and I can get by just fine with my NEC DVD-RW rather than spend four times that for a Plextor. So I'm the wrong person to ask what I would build if money were no barrier.

Depending on where you are reading this figure you could be seeing the amount under utilization. For example, if I look under system properties it only show that I have 981,476KB of RAM out of the 1024MB that I know is there.

Then again if you are using something like SIW it will show the total amount and the individual module's amount. If you don't have this, download it and give it a spin. The 64MB is the size of you smallest module, so it could be that it is bad. The SIW (System Information for Windows) will no show the module if it is bad.

Another option would be to purchase an external case for the IDE hdd and connect it through a USB port.

If it works it will underclock to the slower speed of the PC100, it will not decrease the amount of RAM.

Motherboard of that age were some times picky about what RAM they liked.

Then you need to boot from that partition.

The best place to install ME would be the trash, it is the worst thing M$ ever came up with. This is the OS that coined the phrase Black Screen of Death.

Sorry for the editorial, that didn't really answer your question. Yes you can install three operating systems on one hdd.

have you tried a last known good configuration?

You shouldn't need any other updates to install the SP2, just call M$ and have them send you a CD from which to install it.

The message below came from Microsoft.

Customers without reliable Internet connections who wish to obtain Service Pack 2 on CD can order a free disc from the Microsoft Web site as Service Pack 2 is rolled out worldwide. Microsoft also is working with computer manufacturers to ensure they can make Windows XP-based PCs preloaded with Service Pack 2 available as soon as possible.

That's an older board...good luck if you can't find any alphanumerical information on the board. I would start googling anything printed on it, there is usually something somewhere on the board.

If you took the hdd from your old computer and installed it without wiping it, formatting it, partitioning it, and the installing the OS you could be having a problem with the OS. The OS is used to the chip set and drivers for the previous motherboard and when you introduce the new motherboard with all those changes it confuses the hell out of it. The last time I did that my OS eventually failed completely.

Try wiping the hdd with something like WipeDrive and use you OS disc to format the drive, partition it and install the OS.

You can just reformat, partition, and install the OS, but if you really want a fresh start it's best to wipe the drive.

Call M$ and ask them. You should be able to purchase a CD from M$ for a couple of bucks. Do you have SP1?

Hi cronus88,

I'm a die hard Athlon fan, but I have to agree that the Core 2 Duos are the hottest CPUs on the market at the moment. And that Intel board is good as well. The real question is what is your budget?