On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 04:30:42 GMT, "Jaggz"
wrote:

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)

(A7N8XX would possibly have been a slightly better choice for XP3200,
and I don't understand why a XP2200 needed an upgrade in the first
place, but never mind.)

"installed everything correctly". Well unless you have a hardware
failure, that sure doesn't seem to be the case. Nor is common that
people knowingly does thing uncorrectly, thus your assumption that it
is "correct" is natural, and does not need to be explicitly stated.
This is just a convenient way of not telling what has been
installed/reinstalled, and what bios settings are used.
But how do you expect to get help?

"and after attempts to make it closer or the actual cpu speed"
- What settings have you chosen to do that?!

"computer won't load up past the bios screen". So you get to the bios?
Sounds nice. So is it a problem with RAM, hd/boot or OS-install?


ancra