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

Was that an AMD processor and he is trying to run it at the "AMD" speed
instead of what it actually is ? If so the speed needs to be setback and by
now it may have damaged the processor from overheating.