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Intel says its processors can go up to 85 degrees without damage... the problem consists in their overheat protection, which makes progressive underclock from 65 degrees on. As temperature raises, clock unraise.
Prescotts (specially those overclocked) need watercooler or an expensive and...
If you want to keep the processor, think about Asus P4P800. It'll fit on your budget, supports your processor (also supports any HT northwood up to 3,2 GHz) and has a nice performance level.
For RAM I'd suggest two sticks Corsair LLPT or Twinmos or Kingston HyperX, since you say you could go...
Id format... :D running 2003 with A LOT of stuff in background and task manager tells me that it's using 369 MB of swap... if you are running nothing beyond the OS, it should be using nothing more than 150 MB.
Try to uninstall/install video driver in safe mode ... antivirus software might be impeaching some scripts to run during installation process and it results in bad performance/errors/BSOD.
You are a lucky guy. Power losses can cause even much more damage to a PC. I lost two HDDs this way :mad:
You should consider buying a good no-break set in order to avoid same disaster again.
No beep at all - this means your motherboard is dead, either due to a defective or underpowered power supply, poorly seated CPU or RAM, or a dead-on-arrival board
One beep - board is working fine
One long beep then machine shuts down - faulty, improperly installed or missing CPU
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FSB makes a big difference too ... A64 are not going to achieve 1066 MHz as soon as P4 are... by the way, I have no idea of how Intel is gonna handle thermal solutions with such processors. :confused:
With HTenabled, 800 MHz FSB still get P4 faster with huge memory blocks being processed...
Verify jumper position select on your drives. For Win 2k, they have to be set as master and slave. If you set to cable select, this issue of non-detecting could happen. Also verify if the HDD's are not with errors on their MFT (win2k also works a lot better using NTFS). Partition Magic 8.0 is...
Format it and install XP in a clean partition. History tells that upgrades to WinXP from Win98 are a disaster for performance/stability.
Nope... drivers for WinXP 64 bits are not the same (and don't behave the same) as they do in the 32 bits OS version. You should seek for specific XP-64...