New pc people!!

[Xarthos]

Not technically new lol


AHH! I love it! It's computer name is Dino-puter, because the thing is as tall as my knee.

NVIDIA GEFORCE4 MX 440 128 mb
256 ram (1 problem)
CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
System Slots 5 PCI, 1 AGP



But I have 2 problems.



problem 1
My real ammount of ram is 512
But.. I cannot tell weather it's the ram or the slots because if I pull even one ram chip out it beeps at me and won't boot.

problem 2
I have a 6GB hard drive for my OS
But I also have a 40 GB hard drive for other stuff.
I set the jumpers for slave, and It shows up in device manager, but not in my computer.

Could someone help me with the first problem first, because I wanna play WoW xD

The second problem is my secondary problem..

 

[tom_mai78101]

Problem 1: Try switching around the RAM.

Was: RAM1 in SLOT1, RAM2 in SLOT2
To: RAM2 in SLOT1, RAM1 in SLOT2

And make sure you first open the locks on both ends of each RAM, then put it straight down on the ends until you hear two clicks (or 1 click for two clicks clicking the same time).

Problem 2: See if you can set the jumper to Auto or Cable Select.

Else, you need to know about connecting IDE hard drives. The jumper set to Slave is a big giveaway that you're using IDE hard drives. This link here tells you about Master/Slave relations. Here's a video on how to install a second hard drive. And here's how to connect two hard drives together.

 

[Xarthos]

I tried both of those methods, neither of them worked..

 

[Slapshot136]

so you tried all single-combinations of ram stick and slot? (there should be atleast 4 here)

and the drives should work if you have 1 set to slave and 1 set to master

 

[tom_mai78101]

Are both of those hard drives new?

 

[Xarthos]

I've tried every combo for ram.
and no, both are really old ha.
back when i had my compaq I had gotten them.

That is what confuses me.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Try this:

1. Right click on My Computer
2. Choose manage from the menu
3. Click on Disk Management in the Left Handed pane
4. Look for your drive in the Right Handed pane
5. Right click the drive and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths from the menu.
6. Set the drive letter you want and close out.

See if it works.

 

[Xarthos]

AHHH! THANK YOU SO MUCH! lol
-hugs-

 

[staind25]

For the RAM problem, try running memtest86.

http://www.memtest86.com/

There's a free download. I use the floppy disk package. Basically all you have to do is insert the floppy, restart the computer, and boot from the floppy.

Let the test run for an hour or two, and see if you have any errors.

I ran this awhile back and determined that one of my old computer's RAM slots is faulty...whenever I'd switch the two RAM sticks around, only the same 1 slot would produce errors. Use similar logic to find your problem