Aside from the error in the post, your main problem is going to be getting XP to run on 64MB of RAM. It will move like a snail with the minimum recommended 256MB of RAM.
If you put a hdd in this machine that was used in another you may have messed up the registry.
It would help a great deal if you could include the make and model of your computer when you post your problems.
If you would let us know what make and model your computer is we will be able to find you motherboard and then be able to tell you what CPUs are supported.
If you are just trying to increase the performance you could add more RAM, that's the quickest and most economical way to get a little more speed.
The thermal compound is a paste that is used between the mating surfaces of the CPU and the heatsink assembly to enhance thermal convection.
Is the fan spinning freely? Does it run any cooler with the case open? If it does run cooler with it open you might want to add a fan to the front of the case to draw air in, and a second on to the rear of the case to exhaust the air.
Is the heatsink fan assembly firmly mounted, no movement?
If you could let us know what model your Presario is we could find the beep code for it, or you could google the model with beep code and see what comes up.
There are several things that could cause this, the CPU overheating, bad PSU, bad RAM. When you first start your computer look in the BIOS and see what your temperatures and voltage readings are and let us know what they are. You can also look in the event viewer to see what errors are occurring at those times, there will be a code which you can google for specifics.
I'm assuming from your statement that this noise issue is new to your computer. With the noise coming from the rear it could be the fan in the PSU, if this is the case this could be trouble, if the fan in the PSU fails the PSU could over heat causing it to fail. If the computer is still under warranty have it looked at by a authorized tech, if not you should be able to replace this yourself, it ain't that big of a deal. You don't want to try to replace the fan in the PSU, there are large capacitors inside that will hold a danger amount of voltage...don't go there.
If you aren't familiar with where the PSU is located, look at the rear of the computer case where the power cord is plugged in, that is the PSU. There should be a vent in the PSU, is that where the noise is coming from?
If this is just a case fan then yes you can replace it, it will take longer to open the case that it will to replace the fan...very easy.
Adding another 512 of matching RAM will make a big difference in your performance, especially if you're a gamer. The xms2 is great RAM, for the price it should be. I personally don't see the point in buying a kit for dual channel RAM when you can accomplish the same thing by purchasing two of the same modules.
If you're limited on resources as you have indicated I would go with the second 512 module. If money isn't an issue...go for the xms2 by all means.
btw, there's nothing shabby about that motherboard.
>were your intentions to just insult this guy and then blow him off, or did you actually have some usable advice? You must have missed the usable advice of not bumping your threads and not expecting instant answers. One of the nice things about these forums is that you can learn more than just what you were looking for.
>After all, it has been over twenty four hours now Would you rather I told him to STFW on top of the "strong rebuke"?
>the guy's faux paux wasn't really enough to merit this strong of a rebuke I would hardly call it a "strong rebuke". And speaking of criticisms, you should avoid stating your opinions as if they're fact. It's misleading.
>I would have expected a little more tact from such a senior member. I'm well known for speaking my mind. Perhaps you should adjust your expectations rather than require others to meet them.
Narue...I would have to say that threatening to lock this persons first thread, and calling them presumptuous and rude would fall under the heading of a strong rebuke.
As for my expectations, I don't expect anything from you, my statement was hypothetical, but I have to admit that your response isn't surprising.
It's situations like this that lead me to believe that I understand why people have left Dani Web and will not come back...not to mention any names, but there was one cat that was very popular here who …
I have had problems with the Dani Web page opening today, I keep getting the 404 Error File Not Found message, and have to go back to the start page and try again, so far it has worked on the second attempt. Hopefully a moderator will see this.
As you have probably figured out by now, bumping isn't a cool practice, and sometimes it takes a while to get a response, especially if you put your question in the Geeks Lounge where it will be seen by a much smaller number of readers.
Just curious here Narue, were your intentions to just insult this guy and then blow him off, or did you actually have some usable advice? After all, it has been over twenty four hours now, and the guy's faux paux wasn't really enough to merit this strong of a rebuke. I would have expected a little more tact from such a senior member.
But in this thread, Dani indicated that she upped the ante x10 when she redesigned the site, so you should become a Posting Whiz (or perhaps Cheeze Whiz) at 1K posts.
Good timing on this BeastOverlordH6, I just found an e-mail form the Microsoft E-mail Lottery Promotion annoucing that I have just won eight hundered thousand Euros! Dang, things are getting slimy here, I need to find some sort of filter for this cr@p.
As always what paypal says, they will never ever ask for your name / password. EVER. And never ever click on links from emails, always type into web browsers.
Also, try out microsofts ie 7. It includes a phishing filter that checks websites automomatically for you. I have been using it since last july when it came out and it works really well. I've never had an issue with it crashing or anything.
Thank you, this is what I was hoping to hear, good advice, and a way to protect myself. I saw the MS program on line, but wanted to hear from someone who had used it before I download it.
"haRRY POTTR BOOK 6 ON SAL" "paypal acount verication"
-"Harry" is now on the filter list, as with those charming PayPal folk.-
Cute bo :lol: , but as you can see from my post, this was a very well written and staged product, I did a side by side comparison of the real paypal site and the one the phishers were using, and they are the same, the only difference is that with the phisher first page has a sign stating "this Page Has Been Moved", it has the proper PayPal logo and header including tabs.
Alex, I had left it in because it is a benighn site as long as you don't provide the information they're requesting. I did report this to my bank and inturn their fraud department. With what I was able to glean on line, calling the police isn't really going to accomplish much of anything, especially when you are dealing with the sherif department in a small rural town. As servercrash was alluding to, theses people are pretty well insulated being in some third world country.
server_crash...what can I say, once again you are phishing with a larger pole and obviously going to make the bigger catch, I'm humbled by your prowess. :lol: Just for the record, this is the first and only phishing trip I have seen, they just lucked out and chose something I actually had an account for, otherwise I wouldn't have even looked at it.
Until today I hadn't been aware of the term phishing, but I almost became a victim of it this morning. I received this email this morning...
You have added mike84@juno.com as a new e-mail address for your account. If you don't agree with this e-mail and if you need assistance with your account fallow this link: malicious link removed by moderator. Suffice it to say, it is a web address faked to look like paypal's
Please confirm your information to continue using your account normally.
Copy and paste the link on your internet explorer address bar. Please do not reply to this e-mail.
Not being familiar what form PayPal uses to email their clients, I used the link to go to the site, and after entering my email address and password to log in, another page immediately came up titled "Security Measures" asking for these items...
Social Security Number:
Mother's Maiden Name:
Full Name:
Card Number: VisaMastercard
Expiration Date: /
CVV2 Number: Card Verification Number (CVV2) is located on the back of your card.
ATM PIN: Electronic Signature (ATM PIN) is required for bank verification.
The first thing that caught my eye was their asking me for my social security number, but the real alarms started going off when I saw that they were requesting my ATM pin number!
I called PayPal, and the first thing the rep asked was how was …
Let's go back for a moment, if your computer is still running slower and you have defraged it, cleaned out you cookies, then you should think about running a couple of scans to see if you have an infection. I know you have Norton, but there are some item it may not detect, for that reason I would suggest downloading and running the following freeware.
Depending on your use, 40GB of hdd space isn't that much, after you have decreased the capacity to 50% it will be small enough that if you are backing up DVDs for instance it will start taking longer, so there is one other possibility.
In my opinion, if you are still bent on increasing the performance of you machine, I wouldn't invest in another CPU, I would replace the motherboard and the CPU to a 939 socket. But then you would probably need to purchase different RAM, and then off course, being a Dell you know that the PSU isn't going to beable to keep up with your new components (Dell skimps where ever it can, PSUs are one of them), and you can't go out and purchase a retail PSU, Dell has theirs built to fit their space requirements, so you would have to purchase one from them. If you have already used …
There are several freeware programs that you could download to wipe you hdd, or you could go online to the manufacturer of your hdd and use the harddrive manufacture's diagnostic utility to zero fill the drive.
You will need to make floppy or CD to boot from in order to wipe the drive, and it helps if your BIOS recognizes that drive at the first of the POST.
Actually, I was just checking to see if perhaps you had the wrong modules.
There are two Tyan K8WE motherboards, the Thunder, and the Tiger. Kingston dosen't suggest the same modules for both, the KRX3200AK2/2G is suggested for the Thunder.
Search Results for: KRX3200AK2/2G Description: 2GB 400MHz DDR ECC Registered CL2.5 (2.5-3-3-6-1) DIMM (Kit of 2) Detailed Specifications: Standard 64M X 72 ECC 400MHz 184-pin Registered DIMM (SDRAM-DDR, 2.6V, CL2.5, TSOP, Gold) (Datasheet) Additional Info: Timing for this part: 2.5-3-3-6-1
I'm just a little curious about the discreption in what you posted for the Kingston spec, and what I found.
CPU-Z shows that both cores are recognized and running, everythings cosher with the 64 bit, but the memory is stuck at 200 MHz (3-3-3-8). Now the specs from Kingston show the timings should be 2-3-2-6 @ 2.5V
That paste that you were referring to is a thermal compound, it helps create a bond between the heatsink assembley and the CPU. If you removed this and reassembled the heatsink and CPU, I will bet you that your problem is the CPU is overheating, and your motherboard is trying to save its life by shutting it down.
Artic Silver is one of the more popular brands of thermal paste available.
Clean both surfaces well, use a lint free cloth, do not use any type of solvent, and apply a thin even coat to the CPU and reassemble it, if you haven't damaged it you should be good to go. If you get excess paste, you will want to clean this up, the Arctic silver has silver in it, silver is a conductor of electricity.
Before you close the case, clean it out with canned air, when you use it to clean the fan, put a pencil through the blades to keep it from spinning.
One last thing, before you close the case, check all of your connections, things tend to get jostled about when you muck around inside.
There are a couple of ways to go about this, the simplest obviously is to look a the top of the CPU, you will have to remove the heatsink/fan assembley to see.
If your computer isn't a home build, google the make and model, and you should be able to find out what you have. You could also call the company and ask them.
Have you scanned it with your AV, it sounds like you may have been infected.
Not knowing what you have for a firewall and AV, I can only suggest that if you don't have the following, you might want to download and use these porgrams, they are freeware, and have very good reputations, they don't eat much, and play well with others. :cheesy:
It's a losing battle, you would be better following the advice you were given, wipe the drive and reinstall a OS that you have a poper pruduct key for.
I sure wish I could think of something nice to say to you regarding your spamming our forum, but all I keep thinking is just where on you person you should put this.
Dear God, a little chlorine for the gene pool please.
First of all, welcome to Dani Web. If you post your thread in an appropriate forum, you will have more readers which means better responses, as for your question...your hdd retains a small amout for a buffer zone.
I googled your information and didn't find anything useful, in English that is. The infromation that came up for your computer was in German, and I don't have a means, or time for translating it, perhaps someone else here can help. With out more information I won't be able to find out what your motherboard will support. Perhaps soneone else here will be able to further assist you.
Glad to hear that it's running faster, when your on line you are limited by the type of connection you have, dial up or broad band..., and then your connection is dependent on the specific sites traffic. Your computer could be one of the fastest, and still be slow on line.
If you want to find out what your motherboard is, and just about everything else you could think of, there is a freeware program called Everest Home Edition you can download from the following link.
Hi Fuzzy, there are several things that could slow down you computer, the number of process running in the back ground, upgrages and download while you're doing something else...
What are you doing when you notice that it is running slow?
Have you defraged you hdd recently?
How old is this machine?
What make and model/motherboard and CPU is your computer?
When this happens, go to the task manager, and then processes, and see what is running.
Oliver1152 mentioned unscheduled applications, but you might also be seeing normally shecduled virus scans, automated updates... You just need to check the TM and see what is running. You might also look to see what the percentage of use is being shown for the CPU.
Is this speaker on the motherboard? Is the puter completing the POST? Usually a tone at this time is indicative of some sort of error, overheating cpu...
It would help us if you could supply us with some information about you build.
