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Old September 7th 03, 06:37 AM
willy
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Disconnect all drives and drive cables, look closely around and under the
mobo for any wayward screws, clear the cmos and try starting it up.
If this gets you to the point where you can access the bios then connect a
hdd and cdrom and try again, I would avoid setting the ram any higher than
the 333 (166) level untill you get satisfactory results with the CPU
settings, maybe your ram is not stable at 400mhz.(my understanding and it
may be wrong is that the memory can run at or above the cpu setting but not
below it, in other words if the cpu is at 166/333 the cpu has to be 166/333
or 200/400).




"Jaggz" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a friend who just recently decided to upgrade his

Alienware-made
computer with a faster cpu and motherboard. He went out and bought both

and
installed everything correctly, however, chaos struck. When first started
the system would not recognize the cpu at the right speed and after

attempts
to make it closer or the actual cpu speed the computer became unstable and
eventually wouldn't load at all. He sent it to a shop to be looked at and
they couldn't figure out what the problem was (a well lost 60 dollars

),
and now the computer won't load up past the bios screen. If anyone has

any
insight or knows of any problem or can help us get this machine working

I'd
appreciate it greatly, as my friend is at the point of just going out and
spending a few grand just cause this rather good machine he has now isn't
cooperating...Thanks in advance...


His Old Specs:
-AMD Athlon XP 2200 CPU
-Asus A7N266-C DDR Motherboard
-1 Gigabyte of PC2100 133mHz (unsure of speed, perhaps 266) DDR Ram
-Nvidia Geforce4 TI4600 128 Ram
-Audigy 1394 Soundcard

His New Specs:
-AMD Athlon XP 3200+ CPU
-Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard
-1 Gigabyte of PC3200 400mHz DDR Ram
-Nvidia Geforce4 TI4600 128 Ram
-Integrated Sound Card (Onboard)

-Jaggz