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I had a similar problem with an Athlon XP 1800+ with an ABIT KR7A-Raid. The BIOS seemed to recognize the CPU as a lower grade Athlon processor and rated the speed at 1150MHz (I think). After nervously thinking about it, I simply went into the BIOS and toggled through the settings to get to...

Another thing: Don't worry about not being able to turn off with the power button. That happened to me during my problems, but it clears once you can get to the BIOS screen. Button works fine now!

I had a slightly similar problem just recently when I built my new rig, but my motherboard was giving me beeps. If you haven't already, check to be certain your mobo speaker is properly connected, that is your best problem solver. It turns out my RAM wasn't properly seated and once I got it...

Thanks for the tips. Virulent was right, I just didn't have the RAM completely seated. Instead of putting the RAM into the slot then lifting the taps to latch in place, I pushed the RAM down (quite hard) until the tabs snapped into place by themselves. That did the trick. Hard to believe a...

I'm fairly certain I have the orientation correct, but I never was comfortable with seeing so much space in that notch. I'll check things again when I get home. Thanks for your help.

<< , but I'm weary of using more force to get it all the way down. >> Excuse me, "wary".

I think they're properly seated, although I have my doubts. Does the upper part of the notch on the bottom of the RAM fit all the way down into the slot? Right now it doesn't, but I'm weary of using more force to get it all the way down.

I am a novice building my first PC and have ran into a serious problem. When I try to boot up to make sure the motherboard and video card are operating correctly, I get one long beep repeated continuously from the mobo speaker (with no display on the monitor). Although I have not found the...