EBwiz wrote:Ok, This is off the forums topic, but Klinky asked.
Here's the story. I bought the computer bare bones off of ebay for about 512 dollars after shipping, which was great cause I had a copy of XP Pro. Once I got the computer, however, I was having problems installing it, and on rare occasions when it would install (Correctly, sometimes I could get to XP and have most of the stuff not install correctly), Set ups wouldn't install everything, I got alot of Blue screens of deaths (BSODs, we all know about those), etc... So I gave it to my techie friend Steve. We both thought the Hard drive was bad and it wasn't writing things correctly to it, so he was going to try to write zeros to it and see if that would do it. Well, he likes to experiment and he had a pentium 4 1.8 GHz just lieing around that he decided to try and install on my computer... didn't work, took it out, put the 2.4 it came with back in... Suddenly, my computer is working fine. XP installs without a hitch, all set ups are installing fine. This is when he realized what had happened: My PC was still underclocked at 1.8 GHz from where the bios had auto detected the one he had put in a moment ago. On a wihm, he changed it back to 2.4, and the same problems came back. He attributed this to the RAM in a long, drawn out way that I don't remember (This was a year or so back... actually going on 2, when I had graduated high school)... I can talk to him later and post why he said it was the RAM, but anyway he installed a couple extra fans and gave the computer back to me and I haven't had any problems since, but as soon as I buy new RAM for the computer, I'm upping it back to 2.4 GHz in hopes everything will work fine.
This is exactly why people who aren't A+ certified should have their fingers hacked off if they so much as come within 12 feet of a computer.
Flash your bios, update your power supply, check all your cable connections, make sure everything is configured correctly in your BIOS and everything will be fine.




