I just got a birthday present for my friend. He was running an HP with a 2.2 Northwood Celeron, crappy motherboard with no AGP, 256MB PC2100 RAM and 250W power supply. Me and a couple friends decided to buy him a new motherboard and some RAM, hoping that he could OC his Celery a little. We decided on this:
MSI Micro-ATX Mobo
Rosewill 256MB PC2700 DIMM
He had a little trouble installing the motherboard, as the front power button on his case had different wiring than the mobo connector. He just rearanged the wiring a little, and it turned on perfectly fine. When he tried to boot Windows XP, however, it went to the black screen with the Windows logo and the loading bar at the bottom, waited a bit, then restarted. He also tried booting his Suse Linux, but that made his system hang. Then he tried booting from Knoppix (Linux live CD), and it worked flawlessly. Does he have a virus on his hard drive or something? He doesn't run any antivirus because the only one he has is Norton, and that lags his computer a LOT. Or is his hard drive simply too worn out and at the end of its life? He's trying to reinstall Suse now. I'm not sure how it's coming along.
MSI Micro-ATX Mobo
Rosewill 256MB PC2700 DIMM
He had a little trouble installing the motherboard, as the front power button on his case had different wiring than the mobo connector. He just rearanged the wiring a little, and it turned on perfectly fine. When he tried to boot Windows XP, however, it went to the black screen with the Windows logo and the loading bar at the bottom, waited a bit, then restarted. He also tried booting his Suse Linux, but that made his system hang. Then he tried booting from Knoppix (Linux live CD), and it worked flawlessly. Does he have a virus on his hard drive or something? He doesn't run any antivirus because the only one he has is Norton, and that lags his computer a LOT. Or is his hard drive simply too worn out and at the end of its life? He's trying to reinstall Suse now. I'm not sure how it's coming along.
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