Frustrations and ultimate victory.
So, some time ago I obtained the components to upgrade my system. I was pretty excited. MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard. AMD Athlon64 3200+ processor. 512MBX2 Corsair Value RAM. It was going to be a pretty fair system when combined with the existing Radeon 9600XT that I have.
I put it together, and it seemed to come together perfectly.
Except it wouldn't even boot.
I realized that my old and venerable 350 watt power supply probably wasn't going to cut the mustard, here. So I sprung for a new Antec TruePower 420. I've always wanted one anyway. ^_^
So, now it booted. But the system was unstable as hell. Seemed to be disk related, but I couldn't be sure. So, we tweak this, and that, and the other thing, and still nothing works. Finally, I RMA the motherboard and send it back to Monarch Computers. They cross-ship me a new one. Monarch, by the way, rocks.
So, I install the new mobo. Same stability errors. I start tearing out what little hair I have left and break down and buy a new 80GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive.
Stability errors persist.
In utter frustration, I move the RAM I had from channels 3 and 4 to channels 1 and 2.
And the heavens opened. And the birds sang. And not a trace of a BSOD was found.
I moved the RAM from one set of channels to the other. That was it.
Sometimes, I really, really hate computers. XD
I put it together, and it seemed to come together perfectly.
Except it wouldn't even boot.
I realized that my old and venerable 350 watt power supply probably wasn't going to cut the mustard, here. So I sprung for a new Antec TruePower 420. I've always wanted one anyway. ^_^
So, now it booted. But the system was unstable as hell. Seemed to be disk related, but I couldn't be sure. So, we tweak this, and that, and the other thing, and still nothing works. Finally, I RMA the motherboard and send it back to Monarch Computers. They cross-ship me a new one. Monarch, by the way, rocks.
So, I install the new mobo. Same stability errors. I start tearing out what little hair I have left and break down and buy a new 80GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive.
Stability errors persist.
In utter frustration, I move the RAM I had from channels 3 and 4 to channels 1 and 2.
And the heavens opened. And the birds sang. And not a trace of a BSOD was found.
I moved the RAM from one set of channels to the other. That was it.
Sometimes, I really, really hate computers. XD