"The story of the ignorant newbie that pretends to know computers...around everyone but me - at least he knows his place"
by zippy
So this friend spends 6 months trying to get his dad to let him upgrade his computer (he had been using a POS Dell P2-300, 64MB PC66, integrated everything...). I'd make a plan for his upgrade (translation: completely new computer) and he'd ask his dad and his dad would say yes...then change his mind. At least this is how he made it out to be. <shrug>
So here is what he ends up getting:
AMD AthlonXP 1700
Kingston ValueRAM 256MB PC2100
GeForce4 MX460 64MB
LiteON 24x/10x/40x burner (I forget what speeds)
ECS K7S5A mobo
Maxtor 40GB 7200 RPM Hard drive
Definitely a very nice rig! So he gets this all on Monday and on Tuesday he calls me and tells me he's having problems and can I come over. So fine. Well, wednesday and thursday I was really busy, so I couldn't. Every time I'm on AIM for the last three days though, he keeps bombarding me with these questions and comments about what he has done and everything. My answer was always, "Don't worry about it. I'll be over there Friday." It was annoying as hell! 🙂
His problem was that he'd power up the computer, and the video wouldn't come up on the monitor. The monitor would just be blinking but he could hear the fans and drives and everything power up. So I go over there today at 5:30 and it's all together...lil messy, not a big deal. The IDE cables are covering the DIMM slots. So I do a bunch of stuff, reseat EVERYTHING (one at a time), reset the CMOS, a few other things, but not the DIMMs. Out of sight out of mind I guess, plus it's hard to f' that up considering you hear them click into place.
Then I uncover the DIMMs. WTF!?!?!?! The one DDR stick on the first DIMM slot...fine...but then he has his two old 32MB PC66 SDRAM DIMMs in the two SDRAM slots!!!! :Q So I slap him with a ten lb. Nova Scotian salmon and that was that. (I didn't actually have one handy, so no, that did not really happen.) Yeah, so I power it up, change a few settings in the BIOS (notably, 100MHz bus/memory to 133) and call it a day. 🙂
Silly newbie, mixed memory is for DUMBA$SES. 😉
by zippy
So this friend spends 6 months trying to get his dad to let him upgrade his computer (he had been using a POS Dell P2-300, 64MB PC66, integrated everything...). I'd make a plan for his upgrade (translation: completely new computer) and he'd ask his dad and his dad would say yes...then change his mind. At least this is how he made it out to be. <shrug>
So here is what he ends up getting:
AMD AthlonXP 1700
Kingston ValueRAM 256MB PC2100
GeForce4 MX460 64MB
LiteON 24x/10x/40x burner (I forget what speeds)
ECS K7S5A mobo
Maxtor 40GB 7200 RPM Hard drive
Definitely a very nice rig! So he gets this all on Monday and on Tuesday he calls me and tells me he's having problems and can I come over. So fine. Well, wednesday and thursday I was really busy, so I couldn't. Every time I'm on AIM for the last three days though, he keeps bombarding me with these questions and comments about what he has done and everything. My answer was always, "Don't worry about it. I'll be over there Friday." It was annoying as hell! 🙂
His problem was that he'd power up the computer, and the video wouldn't come up on the monitor. The monitor would just be blinking but he could hear the fans and drives and everything power up. So I go over there today at 5:30 and it's all together...lil messy, not a big deal. The IDE cables are covering the DIMM slots. So I do a bunch of stuff, reseat EVERYTHING (one at a time), reset the CMOS, a few other things, but not the DIMMs. Out of sight out of mind I guess, plus it's hard to f' that up considering you hear them click into place.
Then I uncover the DIMMs. WTF!?!?!?! The one DDR stick on the first DIMM slot...fine...but then he has his two old 32MB PC66 SDRAM DIMMs in the two SDRAM slots!!!! :Q So I slap him with a ten lb. Nova Scotian salmon and that was that. (I didn't actually have one handy, so no, that did not really happen.) Yeah, so I power it up, change a few settings in the BIOS (notably, 100MHz bus/memory to 133) and call it a day. 🙂
Silly newbie, mixed memory is for DUMBA$SES. 😉
