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It would help to know which ABIT motherboard you have and what make and model of the modules you purchased. My first thought was that if you tried to add the new modules with the old ones and try to run in dual channel you could have some compatibility issues …

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Did you get rid of the virus? What did you use to get rid of it? Please provide us with the exact error message.

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How is the BIOS set to recognize the hdd?

Psycho noises aside, if the keyboard is a USB type you may need to enable it in the BIOS which is a catch 22 as you will need a PS2 keyboard to do this. If this psycho noise is a clicking noise it may be your hdd.

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Qwazil...when the operating system was first installed it searched out all of the drivers it would need and recognized the chip set, when you installed the other motherboard with its different chip set you basically confused the heck out of it. When I did that my OS very quickly got …

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Have you looked for drivers at M$?

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Did you apply thermal compound between the CPU and heat sink? Is the fan for the CPU running?

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If your line voltage is 230V and you switched it to 110V you may have blown the fuse in the PSU. This fuse is PC mounted and you will have to pull the board out of the case to access the solder joints. There are capacitors on this board that …

It's too bad you're not adventurous enough to open the case and poke around as what I suspect could be easily fixed by doing so. Basically it sounds like you need to reinstall the driver for that drive, and unplugging the IDE cable and the power cable and turning it …

First thing to try is to disable the automatic restart, when the computer is booting hit F8, when the menu comes up look for that option. There is a possibility that this is maleware, do you have Adaware on this computer?

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Original problem probably was a bad connection.

Was this computer ever running or is this the first time you have fired it up? When you reseated the PCU did you reapply thermal compound?

It would help to know the make and model of your computer and RAM. And what did you reinstall, and do you have sp2?

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That information is a little thin to base any opinion on, care to provide us with a little more information, like the make and model of your rig, the make and model of the RAM that you are trying to use. If your using a module that's only 128MB I'm …

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That motherboard has three expansion slots with a capacity of 1GB per slot using PC-2100 or PC-2700. If you use PC-3200 you can only use two slot with a capacity of 1GB per slot. PC-2100 = DDR-266 = 266MHz PC-2700 = DDR-333 = 333MHz PC-3200 = DDR-400 = 400MHz If …

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When was the last time you clean out the dust from the CPU heat sink fan assembly? You could be verging on a overheating issue. btw...there is nothing wrong with AMD, some of the earlier CPUs may have run rather warm, but they are still good.

As much as I like and use AMD the Intel Core 2 duo is the best on the market at the moment. You should take into consideration that the reviews at Newegg are made by the general public who may or may not have purchased and used the products, and …

Have you run scans for viruses and other nasties? If not I would go into safe mode and run you scans. Have you made any changes to you OS recently?

I would format that larger drive and put three partitions on it, two for the pair of OSs and one for files. You can set it up so that you can boot from either OS. I would wipe the smaller one and use it for backup storage.

There are a couple of things that you can do to trouble shoot this, but the first thing to do if you still can is to back up your important files. One thing that you can do is to go to my computer, right click on your hdd , go …

If you are this obsessive you should be removing programs that are in the add/remove list from there and then you shouldn't have these problems. You might try going to start> search> for files or folders, enter the program that you that you are trying to delete and go from …

Call your ISP, let them sort it out.

If your computer is still under warranty return it for repairs.

If you are planning on doing a fresh installation of XP I would suggest wiping the drive with a utility like [url=http://www.whitecanyon.com/mediawiper-download.php]Wipe Drive[/url], this will remove any traces of that virus, a format only removes the file addresses.

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If you have only one or maybe two bad sectors you can work around these, and you can do this using you Window OS. Go to my computer, right click on your hdd, click on properties, click on tools, click on check now, you will have an option to scan …

Which Crucial modules did you use? ASUS can be a little picky about what RAM it likes.

What usually happens in these instances is that the sudden cut off can damage files. Have you tried a last good configuration?

Wipe the hdd with something like WipeDrive or Kill Disk and you should be able to format, partition, and install the OS. You will need to make a CD of the download, make you CD-ROM the first device in the boot order, place the CD in the drive and boot …

What motherboard are you using? Most motherboards will support ATA or PATA HDDs. The bus speed of the PCI bus is 133 MB/s, so it should work. And the 7200rpm is the faster drive.

There are several things that could cause your computer to crash, buggy drivers, a problem with the OS, problems with other software, and aging parts. Are you getting any error messages? One of the things I would look for with a computer this old would be bad capacitors, if you …

Do you have another PSU that you can try? It does sound like the PSU may have a problem, then again it could be the motherboard.

Do you mean over clock, it sounds like this person is telling you that they over clocked the VGA. Biostar makes motherboards, so this is probably the manufacturer of your motherboard. The VGA is your video graphics array. Caveat emptor.