Ok so I stripped it down to one stick and reseated the new vid card, now its makin three quick beeps a tiny pause before the next two? All five beeps are pretty rapid?
Still doin it! Im starting to think it might be a bad mobo? I replaced the power supply. And I have cycled through the ram in all the slots. Any other thoughts? Is it common for a mogo to go bad? Ive had it since 7/17/06 and this is the model...
The memory controller is on the motherboard. I would say it is the motherboard before I'd say it was all the memory but you might purchase one stick of memory to rule it out.
Post your PC configuration so I can find some compatible ram.
The thing that sucks about buying old hardware is that some of it is around the same price as the new stuff.
If you need a motherboard though you can pick one up at newegg from $30 to $70.
Hopefully I will get to use my new 9600GSO vid card from EVGA and keep the non essential upgrade stuff like HD, Optical, Case, and Power supply which I just replaced for this
Well I gotta try to weight the longevity of this thing, I was hoping my last comp would last me more then five years but that looks like the cap on these things regardless of how you build them or use them. If the CPU I have will work im gonna stay with that cause like I said Im on a budget and I spend way to much money on computers as it is.
The AMD Athlon II X2 250 will be a great upgrade and will perform a lot better then your AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+.
Good luck, and enjoy the new rig. [:bohleyk:1]