Hi guys. I recently built my first computer, so I am somewhat of a noob. I've been searching the forums and can't seem to find anything pertaining to my 'unique' issue, to say the least. I have an ASUS M2N68-AM SE2 MOBO with an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU. When I boot, the BIOS gives me a message saying the performance frequency of my CPU is a little higher than my mobo intended for support, but with ASUS AI protection it can work just fine by lowering the CPU frequency. Well, I can't find anything about this on the ASUS websites, or any of the forums I've been to, and it doesn't seem like there is anything in the BIOS that will let me underclock the CPU, and I can't find any information about that either. My best guess is that it does this automatically.
Regardless, I let it boot and I installed Vista(Home 32-bit). It ran well enough. At times when I would click on things in the start menu it wouldn't load them up at all, I was wondering if that perhaps was an issue with the CPU? It was like I was clicking on shortcuts that weren't actually shortcuts to anything. I got rid of Vista though, because I didn't like the fact that it would not recognize my 4gigs of RAM, so I switched it out for Windows XP 64-bit. I've had some problems with it, and I was wondering if you could give me your take on these.
I've read that some 32-bit installers work, some don't. Minefield, and Shredder, I believe(Thunderbird 64-bit) it's called, run flawlessly, and most of the 32-bit apps I run ran very well too. But when I tried to install PowerISO and Daemon Tools(both 64-bit installers) they would run up to about 20% and freeze out. Even more strange is the fact that when I try to download torrents with Arctic Torrent(64-bit), it will download the torrents just fine, but it won't actually create the directories it's downloading these torrents in to. And when I try to open them directly from Arctic Torrent it gives me an error message explaining that these directories do not exist or could have been moved. Well, the windows browser doesn't recognize them either as the files I download don't actually show up anywhere...and doing a search doesn't even reveal them on my harddrive. Do you think this could have something to do with my CPU? I also have Zone Alarm Forcefield installed, and I've heard negative things about it too. What are your thoughts? Thanks.
Regardless, I let it boot and I installed Vista(Home 32-bit). It ran well enough. At times when I would click on things in the start menu it wouldn't load them up at all, I was wondering if that perhaps was an issue with the CPU? It was like I was clicking on shortcuts that weren't actually shortcuts to anything. I got rid of Vista though, because I didn't like the fact that it would not recognize my 4gigs of RAM, so I switched it out for Windows XP 64-bit. I've had some problems with it, and I was wondering if you could give me your take on these.
I've read that some 32-bit installers work, some don't. Minefield, and Shredder, I believe(Thunderbird 64-bit) it's called, run flawlessly, and most of the 32-bit apps I run ran very well too. But when I tried to install PowerISO and Daemon Tools(both 64-bit installers) they would run up to about 20% and freeze out. Even more strange is the fact that when I try to download torrents with Arctic Torrent(64-bit), it will download the torrents just fine, but it won't actually create the directories it's downloading these torrents in to. And when I try to open them directly from Arctic Torrent it gives me an error message explaining that these directories do not exist or could have been moved. Well, the windows browser doesn't recognize them either as the files I download don't actually show up anywhere...and doing a search doesn't even reveal them on my harddrive. Do you think this could have something to do with my CPU? I also have Zone Alarm Forcefield installed, and I've heard negative things about it too. What are your thoughts? Thanks.
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