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by cclenright 2 views

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Hi Guys,

I am very new to this though I have been a member for about 8 years. I have just used the group to search for problems, read the results and work it out from there..many thanks for all the help :)

This time I a flumoxed ...

My daughter plays on Second Life and keeps pinching my computer so I decided to upgrade an old pc for her.

I have a few ancient pc's lying around. The CD's and HDD and floppies works ... so I thought well just upgrade the Motherboard, CPU, RAM and PSU and she has everything needed.

So I bought an Intel 775 Motherboard+6.0GHz Intel Dual Core+2GB DDR2 and built a new pc.

So first it didn't like the o/s. But I have the original XP Pro cd so reinstalled XP. And, in theory it all works ..

except that give it two jobs to do at once ... and it crashes and reboots ..

and I mean easy jobs ... like downloading something and then try opening IE ... reboot?!?!

I have been trying to solve this for two days .. have installed every Windows upgrade .. but seems my new "high speed system" (well higher than before) ... just can't take pressure ..

I would appreciate any advice ..

Maybe I should add for the really tech guys .. I had a hard time reinstalling XP ... lots of blue screens ..

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

but finally it installed ..

thanks

Chris

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by tintoman

and wondered whether your RAM is properly compatible with your mobo.
However you didn't say what mobo it is or what RAM speed you have so perhaps if you could tell us that we can advise further

by cclenright

According to the box ..lol .. is a Biostar Intel NVIDIA GeForce 7050V M7 ..

and .... when I accidently pressed on Send Error to Microsoft, I did get a reponse that maybe my RAM wasn't compatible with my BIOS, or something like that ..

Chris

by tintoman

this mobo supports up to 4GB 667Mhz RAM or 800Mhz
Is this what you have fitted?

by cclenright

The upgrade pack was a complete mobo with CPU and Ram ..
1333MHz, 2GHz, DDR2-667

by tintoman

would be to boot the machine into CMOS settings and select the failsafe default settings as I believe your system might be overclocking, if that doesn't help post back and I'll try to come up with something else

by cclenright

A million years ago in my youth I was an Intel 8080 machine code programmer, now I am a granddad .. :) ... been into BIOS and can't seem how to do that .. :)

by oh smeg

Load System Defaults or something along those lines. It really sounds as if the CPU isn't correctly identified here.

Col

by mjd420nova

This system description After upgrade is a power hungry unit, with all the RAM, it should need at least 500 Watte average power. The restarts are the power supply sencsing an undervoltage and shutting down.

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