Gotta check the BIOS first. Your upgrade shop may well have SNAFU'd things when doing the upgrade. Hush my mouth, but maybe even deliberately if they worked out you didn't have a clue.
It's not really frightening. My son's only a couple of years older than you so I know you'll be able to handle it (mind you he started on PCs at age 2, playing Doom2 while sat on my lap).
agh this is turning to a nightmare im gona just do random things till it stopsi officially close this thread
, sorta
You've come this far quintinius, you might as well see it through to the end.
Yes stick with it, that's how you'll learn
Some days I think growing up with tape divers was a good thing, it taught us patience.
Looking at the jetway web site i finally managed to find a working link to the pm800dms motherboard manual. clicky ignore the fact that it says socket 775 because it is socket478.
Looks like that "magic duct" does have a fan at the back, make sure that that fan is spinning when you turn on your pc on and there no giant dust build ups there.
Chapter 3 is about the BIOS setting.
keep tapping Delete on your keyboard when you first turn on your PC and you will get into the BIOS.
You move around the BIOS Screen with the arrow keys and enter
Check the PC Health Status section, in there you will find the temptures, Vcore voltage, +3.3v voltage, +5v voltage and +12v voltage.
(I'd check these as progarms that give you this info within windows can be wrong as they don't always "talk" to the chipset correctly)
ok i went on the BIOS and reseted everything to defualt
Everything? Hope that works. You may have changed some settings that needed to be different to default. But if it runs OK then you have gotten away with it.Originally Posted by quintinius
There probably are some settings that could be tweaked, now that you've dipped a toe, and if you're interested in improving performance.
If anything no longer works properly, you'll have to.
ok everything's working fine but still crashing, and IM SOOOOOOOO sorry to gonzo i think it was who kept saying clean out the dust clean out the dust becoz i just looked at my heatsink and u cudnt see the top behind the fan becoz there was sooo much dust, i had to use a philips head screw driver to clean it out
Well is it still crashing after clearing out the dust? Does Everest still show the same voltage (maybe default is wrong)? Have the temps dropped at all?
I find that an old paint brush is a good tool for cleaning out the dust.
Edit: Now that you have had a look in the bios can you see a setting called Vcore? If you can what does it read?
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LOL 5 pages later and you finally start cleaning it
ok temps have REALLY dropped earlier it was on for like 10 mins -50degrees now its only at lke 20
but im still getting crashes and game errors
I'm think RAM. What sticks are in what slots? Everest, under Computer/DMI then open Memory Devices in the right pane. Should see A0/A1/A2/A3. Click on each and see what it says re size and speed. BTW removing that dust will have prolonged the life of your CPU, so it was still worth doing.
Might be time to try and run memtest86 diagnostic.
You can download it from here in various forms depending on whether you have floppy drive, CD burner or bootable USB drive. Dead easy to use, just boot up and it tests your memory. It should just give a count of how many times it has successfully looped through all of its tests if all is well, else you get lots of cryptic errors and an error count.
ok nvm not crashing anymore i think it was just the fan clearing out the last of the dust last time and was still a lil toasty
Thats good news. You can actually buy new fans really cheap and they aren't too hard to replace.
Excellent (or should that be "gz").
Now your machine is stable, we shall wait for your next thread on budget video cards for running Warcraft
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