begin amusing pre-story
Well originally I was going to put together a system for a friend of mine to get him a better system for his money (we're in high school). Well he turned into a baby when he found out his friend was charging him $60 profit to order and assemble it, so he said he would "do it himself..how hard could it be."
Well first off, he knows absolutely nothing about hardware. He ordered an "Athlon XP combo kit"" from an unknown yahoo website, instead of Newegg like I suggested. he said "he got a better deal." the motherboard is off brand...hell, it HAS no brand, its house branded or something. Sis 735 chipset along with a 2600+ 266fsb processor.
Well low and behold a week later he calls me up whining because his system won't turn on. Now of course ne knows nothing about anything. Not only did he not have the case buttons and lights plugged in correctly, he DIDN"T KNOW THAT YOU HAD TO LIFE THE CPU SOCKET LATCH. he jammed the CPU down into it and put the heatsink on top without lifting the latch. Moron.
end amusing pre-story
Anyway, I couldnt fix it in the 20 minutes i was at his house so hes paying me to do it (ironic eh?). Well I figured out first off that his CPU fan is dead, had to swap it out with mine for testing purposes. The main problem now is when installing XP to run sandra tests etc on his processor XP freezes while in the "copying files" stage with a memory error. He bought some off brand 1GB stick of PC2700 SDRAM. I swapped it out with my PNY PC 2700 256MB stick and it installs fine.
SOO, we're down to a memory issue. I put the 1GB stick in my XP 1800+ system and it runs fine. Given windows is already installed, but I rain Sandra and 3DMark 03 and it all tests fine. I have a Shuttle KT400 mainboard (forgot model at the top of my head).
Question is, is his memory screwed, should I have him try to exchange it for some crucial? It just doesn't like the mainboard? Any way to make it work? Its on default timings, but any advice would be great. Other than that I think his system is ok, thank god. He had forgotten to use riser screws under his motherboard, good think I checked that.
Anyway, thanks.
Well originally I was going to put together a system for a friend of mine to get him a better system for his money (we're in high school). Well he turned into a baby when he found out his friend was charging him $60 profit to order and assemble it, so he said he would "do it himself..how hard could it be."
Well first off, he knows absolutely nothing about hardware. He ordered an "Athlon XP combo kit"" from an unknown yahoo website, instead of Newegg like I suggested. he said "he got a better deal." the motherboard is off brand...hell, it HAS no brand, its house branded or something. Sis 735 chipset along with a 2600+ 266fsb processor.
Well low and behold a week later he calls me up whining because his system won't turn on. Now of course ne knows nothing about anything. Not only did he not have the case buttons and lights plugged in correctly, he DIDN"T KNOW THAT YOU HAD TO LIFE THE CPU SOCKET LATCH. he jammed the CPU down into it and put the heatsink on top without lifting the latch. Moron.
end amusing pre-story
Anyway, I couldnt fix it in the 20 minutes i was at his house so hes paying me to do it (ironic eh?). Well I figured out first off that his CPU fan is dead, had to swap it out with mine for testing purposes. The main problem now is when installing XP to run sandra tests etc on his processor XP freezes while in the "copying files" stage with a memory error. He bought some off brand 1GB stick of PC2700 SDRAM. I swapped it out with my PNY PC 2700 256MB stick and it installs fine.
SOO, we're down to a memory issue. I put the 1GB stick in my XP 1800+ system and it runs fine. Given windows is already installed, but I rain Sandra and 3DMark 03 and it all tests fine. I have a Shuttle KT400 mainboard (forgot model at the top of my head).
Question is, is his memory screwed, should I have him try to exchange it for some crucial? It just doesn't like the mainboard? Any way to make it work? Its on default timings, but any advice would be great. Other than that I think his system is ok, thank god. He had forgotten to use riser screws under his motherboard, good think I checked that.
Anyway, thanks.
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