Here are my current specs prior to me trying to upgrade, before i get into anything.
Athlon 64 3400+
Asus K8N-E Deluxe
512 Geil PC3200
XFX GF 6800
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer
2 WD Special Edition 80 gig hd's
I just built that setup a little over 2 weeks ago, and this week I ordered more parts to upgrade with. I ordered a second stick of RAM, a new antec true 430 watt psu, and a pioneer 16x dvd rw... after i put all the new components in my system, everything booted fine... but i went to load cpu-z and i got all of these weird looking blocks on the screen scattered everywhere and the programs wouldnt load, then i restarted and windows itself wouldnt load, so i removed the new stick of ram figuring that was the problem and everything appeared to be fine... so i went to play UT2004 and i got the same problem, ut froze, i got a bunch of blocks on the screen, and it crashed... So after this i figured it may be the new psu, so i switched back to the old raidmax 420w psu that came with the case, and initially everything appeared to be fine, so i shut down and restarted a few times, and on about the 3rd time i got the weird lines and blocks everywhere on the screen... now im stumped... the ram i have in there was working fine before i tried to upgrade, as was the mobo and video card... what could be causing this? windows is loading fine but i get the visual corruption after i try to load a few programs... i really need help, i have no idea what else i should do, or what i should try to rma...
Athlon 64 3400+
Asus K8N-E Deluxe
512 Geil PC3200
XFX GF 6800
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer
2 WD Special Edition 80 gig hd's
I just built that setup a little over 2 weeks ago, and this week I ordered more parts to upgrade with. I ordered a second stick of RAM, a new antec true 430 watt psu, and a pioneer 16x dvd rw... after i put all the new components in my system, everything booted fine... but i went to load cpu-z and i got all of these weird looking blocks on the screen scattered everywhere and the programs wouldnt load, then i restarted and windows itself wouldnt load, so i removed the new stick of ram figuring that was the problem and everything appeared to be fine... so i went to play UT2004 and i got the same problem, ut froze, i got a bunch of blocks on the screen, and it crashed... So after this i figured it may be the new psu, so i switched back to the old raidmax 420w psu that came with the case, and initially everything appeared to be fine, so i shut down and restarted a few times, and on about the 3rd time i got the weird lines and blocks everywhere on the screen... now im stumped... the ram i have in there was working fine before i tried to upgrade, as was the mobo and video card... what could be causing this? windows is loading fine but i get the visual corruption after i try to load a few programs... i really need help, i have no idea what else i should do, or what i should try to rma...
just go to add or remove programs via control panel and get rid of that stupid SP2. I recommend holding off on installing it for a few months. If you already have a third party firewall running, you really don't need SP2, but that's a whole different issue.
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