My wife has a laptop that has a P3 600 in it and she would like to know if it can be upgraded to something faster? I looked on pricewatch and I can get a P3 1.0g that runs on a 100Mhz FSB would this work in her laptop?
It is a Compaq Presario 1700XL
600 Mhz P3
192 Megs ram
If the 1 gig wont...
For right now I am going to be using the integrated video (GeForce4 MX) But I will be upgrading the video card in the not to distant future. So how many watts would you all recommend? I am very limited in the amount of money that I can spend right now on stuff for the computer :(
Thanks for...
I have used 2 different DIMM's had the same problem. (Both were new Kreton PC2700)
I dont have another computer to run memtest86 on.
I tried different IDE cables and still had the same problem.
I also tried 2 different CDRoms still did the same thing.
With the error that WinXP gave me...
Well here is a little update.
I have reset the BIOS to defaults ---- Didnt help
I have unhooked everything but the HD and CD --- Same
I have tried 2 different HD's (the Seagate and a 16 gig maxtor) ---- same prob with both
The CPU is running at 34-36 C (according to the BIOS) the fsb is set...
I have formatted it MANY times. That is not the problem. I am thinking that the Mobo is bad. :(
I hope not the RMA people at newegg are not gonna be liking me :P
Well gotta go to work.
Could flashing the BIOS possibly help?
I have been trying to get everything from win 95 to win XP on the computer that I just built and none of them will make it as far as to boot the OS. Win95 will give me protection error (something about while initializing IOS) Win98 wont even make it to installing the files. WinXP will...
Are the 9600SE cards anygood? What difference does the 64bit memory make?
Also what is the DVI port? Sorry if I sound dumb asking this I just haven't read about
it anywhere. I am just gettin back into building and upgrading computers :P
I am thinking about getting a new video card for my computer and can only spend upto $125. It will be used for gaming (mainly SOF2 and Medal of Honor). I dont have the have all of settings maxed and running superhigh resolutions. What chipset is the best for gaming, ATI or Nvidia??
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It was the ram. Put the ram in my brothers computer and it wouldnt do as much as it would in mine. Called NewEgg got a RMA number, sending it back tomarrow. SO hopefully I will have it up and going next week.
Thanks for the input yall
Bozo
It has been partitioned, set active, formatted and all that good stuff :) I used the disc utility CD that came with the new HD. The HD is set to master and on the primary IDE connector, the CD Rom is on the secondary IDE also set to master :P
I think that tomarrow I am going to take the...
Well I got a new HD, still have the same problem. Disabled the integrated sound/lan/usb, still the same problem. Also tried installing 95 and I get a Windows protection error While initializing device IOS:
I think that the problem may possibly be the ram. What do you all think about...
I am stalling windows 98 (I know but it is all that I right now to put on it) and I am having a problem that I have never had before. It gets to the collecting information about your computer part and is checking for available disk space part and freezes at 61% every time. Across the top of...
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