Did I do this right

[Byotch]

Was told that I had to reset the cmos on my msi mobo. Reason being is that the person who gave it to me had disabled the onboard graphics. I removed the battery from mobo and moved the jumper from pins 1-2 to 2-3. it has been like this for about an hour (he had pulled gpu card to use in another pc). Hw called me @7am this morning to find out if I had it up and running and he told me he had disabled the onboard. I also understand that support for win xp will be discontinued some time next year by microsoft. I love that opsys. since this mobo will support 64bit should I install xp pro 64bit and is it that much better than 32bit. I do not like win vista and for some reason windows 7 seems hard for me to navigate. that may be due to the fact that i have used xp since it first came out. have discs for xp home 32bit, xp pro 32bit, xp pro 64bit and vista but not a disc for windows 7. also have office2007 enterprise and office 2010 corporate 64bit. please advise as to what ould be best. pc has a 2.8ghz pc that is unlocked 4gig ram and hard drive space is no problem (close to 1tb internal hdd space). CPU is amd 7750 black edition

 

[Byotch]

There aren't any cores in a ram stick. The RAM and the processor are completely separate.

If both the board and the processor can handle ram with XXXX mhz then the computer will boot fine unless some part is flawed.

If either the processor or the board can't handle the XXXX mhz RAM, then the computer won't boot and it will give some error code.

If you tried taking out the 2x 512MBs and putting in 1x 2GB and it stopped working then it is likely that either the board or the processor can't handle whatever MHZ the 2GB stick is.

The RAM should work in whatever slots, but it may work less efficiently if it isn't in the suggested slots.

okay i know that i am stupid but why is ram called ddr, ddr2, and ddr3. Acer is working fine just that it seems to be running slower than this dell

 

[4745454b]

What are the parts of the two machines?

If either the processor or the board can't handle the XXXX mhz RAM, then the computer won't boot and it will give some error code.

This almost never happens. The ram should have a number of pre programmed specs to run at. If you buy DDR3 1600MHz ram, it should include some timings/settings for DDR3-1333, and DDR3-1066. (it might also include 1866 or faster settings as well, but not always.) Very rarely will you buy ram that fits the slot and not have it work. From what I've seen its an issue with the chipset/memory controller like the 965 based boards.

 

[Byotch]

There aren't any cores in a ram stick. The RAM and the processor are completely separate.

If both the board and the processor can handle ram with XXXX mhz then the computer will boot fine unless some part is flawed.

If either the processor or the board can't handle the XXXX mhz RAM, then the computer won't boot and it will give some error code.

If you tried taking out the 2x 512MBs and putting in 1x 2GB and it stopped working then it is likely that either the board or the processor can't handle whatever MHZ the 2GB stick is.

The RAM should work in whatever slots, but it may work less efficiently if it isn't in the suggested slots.

I am going to close this thread and open up another one Titled sata and ide so please look for it

 

[Byotch]

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[Mousemonkey]

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