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    Ram upgrade changes cpu from 2 to 1.25 ghz

    I have an MSI K7n2 Delta2 MOBO AMD Athlon XP 2800 cpu I just upgraded ram from 1 gig to 3 gig and instead of system displaying cpu as AMD xp 2800 2.05 ghz(if I remember right) it shows it just as 1.25 ghz Athlon The ram I installed is crucial ddr pc2700 Could someone explain...
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    SATA Woes

    Recently had to reinstall windows, reformatted C partition on SATA drive(where windows XP was installed), added an 80 gig IDE, installed windows on it and ubuntu, both installations went ok but I'm having trouble getting SATA drivers and modem installed on XP. I ran the driver disk from mobo...
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    XP installation problems with SATA hdd

    MSI k7n2 Delta2 mobo Athlon 2.15 ghz 512 mb ram I just bought a new seagate 7200.8 barracuda hdd and I'm having trouble installing win XP home. First off, there was no drive detected when plugged into SATA 1 on mobo, so I tried plugging into SATA 2 and it detected the drive. I then used...
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    CD-Rom problem

    I have a dual boot of win98se and win2k. I have 2 cd roms one is a cdrw, the other just cd. Both seem to work fine in win2k, but when I booted into 98 one of the cd roms showed up as removable disk(its the slave). I tried removing it and reinstalling as cd but when I removed it I got warnig...
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    Installed new K7N2 Delta2-LSR, no beep, no post

    Just replaced a bad K7T turbo with K7N2 Delta2-LSR and also had to buy new ram (Geil 512mb ddram pc 3200) and had to get an 4x/8x agp video card (Powercolor Xaber 200 X20L) The rest of my specs and history of this project are here...
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    OC virgin wants to honeymoon

    I have an old dinosaur that I want to experiment with overclocking and anything else I can do to upgrade, mainly for a learning experience for myself. Board: Compaq 046Ch Bus clock: 66 mhz PII 333mhz 32k primary cache, 512 secondary 2-128mb sticks of ram What more can I get out...
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    Need help with XP purchase

    I'm fixing to buy new motherboard http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1583615&enterthread=y I currently have a win 2K pro installation disc, would like to go to xp but preferably not right now. The way I understand, I could buy an OEM of XP home for @ $90 with the...
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    What motherboard should I buy??!!

    Hi, I just found this forum yesterday and have been real impressed with the attention each thread seems to get and the experience and knowledge of the posters. My knowledge of computers is very limited; I got my first one only a year ago. (you heard right) But I have learned quite a bit in a...