Recent content by Bernard0807

yeh i thought it was weird too. its staying in there, im not in a rush to swap them back lol yeh i waited for win7 to install the driver and rebooted it when win7 prompted me to. she been using all last night with no issues or any decreased performance, just thought someone could shed light on...

okay so i had a Core 2 Duo e6600 lying around and my friends pc had a Pentium e2180, so i offered to swap them out. i ran the windows index and to my suprise the CPU had dropped from 6.1 (pentium) to 5.9 (core2duo). this baffles me, i was so sure the core 2 duo would perform better. am i missing...

Got a call from the pc shop, faulty ram, only charged me £5 so quite happy to get an answer, just have to wrestle for a full refund of cex now, thanks for the help guys

So Iv booked it into another local pc shop, he's going to test the motherboard cpu and ram and he only charges £35, I will edit this when I find out what's wrong and pick a best answer, thanks for your help guys

Resetting the CMOS didn't sort the issue, no successful post beep nor signal to monitor. Wen I was building the system I noticed some fluff between two pins on the cpu, not want to blow it by mouth (moisture) I used a can of air, only the frozen like gas came out and landed on the cpu, could...

I thought it wouldn't post at all if the cpu was bad (I read in a thread on here) Haven't tried resetting the bios as it's a fresh out the box board, il give it a try tho. I'm sure the ram is compatible, the board can take up to 1800mhz when overlooked but by default maximum is 1333mhz on the...

I realised I didn't answer clearly, Iv edited my last post, apologies

Tried one stick, in left slot, then in right Motherboard is a gigabyte 78lmt s2p, cpu athlon ii x2 2.9ghz, ram is mt 2x4gb ddr3 1333mhz, Iv contacted the seller to try and rma the board but just wanted some opinions incase I missed anything

My last post was redicously long, so I'll make this short System wouldn't post, no moniter display or keyboard power I followed trouble shooting guide and breadboarded the system, would get 6 beeps with no ram in just cpu, hs and psu. Plug ram in and nothing, not series of beeps or single beep...

im gonna try it in a friends rig after the weekend just to be sure, no harm done i guess, its only £25. good luck with yours

it came bubble wrapped lol it was an ebay seller, the listed it as 'spares or repairs' because it wasnt 'compatible' with his computer, i knew what i was buying into and prepaired my self for it to be DOA, iv looked at another photo of a hd 5770 and that single connector pin should be like that...

my psu is a thermaltake TR2-500

tried to post the thread on my iphone grrr ill edit it

hi all, So I bought a sapphire hd 5770 for just under £25 second hand, when the card arrived I installed it carefully into my system and i got 6 beeps when i powered up (hp mobo) for a failed/faulty vga (the fan still spins) i put the old card in and it boots up fine so i retried the 5770 and...