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by Chemish
Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:54 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: PC Rebuild freeze-up disaster
Replies: 5
Views: 2479

Ok, that all makes sense, thanks for your suggestions. I guess I forgot some details though. First of all the original OS was XP, so if that makes a difference with the memory ... I'm really cheap so I hate to buy new memory if it doesn't need it. All I had was an OEM disk, it can do a recover but i...
by Chemish
Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:07 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: PC Rebuild freeze-up disaster
Replies: 5
Views: 2479

PC Rebuild freeze-up disaster

My problem is probably obvious to someone who plays around with guts of a PC all the time. I rebuilt my PC with a new motherboard(ATX Intel 848P), CPU(Celeron D), power supply(400W), and case - but just plugged in the old memory(? can't tell what it is). When I plugged it in, the power supply popped...