I got a tower with a ASUS M3A78-CM motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Socket AM2 (940). It was filthy, CPU, CPU fan and Heat sink were real bad with paste like dust and dirt, the motherboard had areas coated with dust. I cleaned it all up, used 91% isopropyl alcohol and q-tips and canned air.
Had Vista 32bit on it and I put Windows 10 64bit on it. It seemed ok when Vista was on it but I didn't have it up very long before I put 10 on it so hard to tell.
It was a little glitchy so I switched out the hard drive and reinstalled 10. Worked a lot better. Only thing was is that after it was turned off for 5 minutes then turned on it would not boot all the way, it got stuck with just the Windows icon in the center, no spinning circle. So I would hard shut down and then restart right away and it would load and boot. So I reinstalled 10 again. Same thing. Then I researched that turning fast start up off in power options would fix that issue, so I tried it and it worked, it would load and boot just fine.
Disconnected and unplugged it to remove stickers that were on it. It was unplugged for 5 hours maybe, then I plugged it in and everything moved supper fast, the circle, and time was flying by, minutes were going like seconds. The web loaded up real fast, if you typed anything it would type lots of the letter you put in after just one press on the key, like this, ccccccccjjjjjjjj.
CPU fan is going real fast but CPU temp seems to hold around 44*C
I have tried a different hard drive, flashed the BIOS and Flashed it back. New PSU, different outlets. Disconnected the HDD and Optical drive.
Took out a 1GB stick of RAM and everything slowed down to normal. So just to make sure all was well with the computer after removing the RAM I decided to unplug the machine for a few hours since thats when it went crazy last time.
And darn it it did it again, went all fast. Removed another stick of RAM and still same issue.
Moved sticks of RAM to different slot, no improvement. Ran Windows Memory test, no problems
Changed out CMOS battery still same problem.
Tried flashing all versions of BIOS but would only except 2 as it told me the rest were older then
the board.
Also when I reinstall Windows 10 everything still moves real fast even from the disc.
Trying to reinstall Vista now and same thing, can't even enter the product key because when you type one key it gives you like 8 of what you pressed.
Any suggestion would be greatly apprecated.
Thank you for your time and help.
Had Vista 32bit on it and I put Windows 10 64bit on it. It seemed ok when Vista was on it but I didn't have it up very long before I put 10 on it so hard to tell.
It was a little glitchy so I switched out the hard drive and reinstalled 10. Worked a lot better. Only thing was is that after it was turned off for 5 minutes then turned on it would not boot all the way, it got stuck with just the Windows icon in the center, no spinning circle. So I would hard shut down and then restart right away and it would load and boot. So I reinstalled 10 again. Same thing. Then I researched that turning fast start up off in power options would fix that issue, so I tried it and it worked, it would load and boot just fine.
Disconnected and unplugged it to remove stickers that were on it. It was unplugged for 5 hours maybe, then I plugged it in and everything moved supper fast, the circle, and time was flying by, minutes were going like seconds. The web loaded up real fast, if you typed anything it would type lots of the letter you put in after just one press on the key, like this, ccccccccjjjjjjjj.
CPU fan is going real fast but CPU temp seems to hold around 44*C
I have tried a different hard drive, flashed the BIOS and Flashed it back. New PSU, different outlets. Disconnected the HDD and Optical drive.
Took out a 1GB stick of RAM and everything slowed down to normal. So just to make sure all was well with the computer after removing the RAM I decided to unplug the machine for a few hours since thats when it went crazy last time.
And darn it it did it again, went all fast. Removed another stick of RAM and still same issue.
Moved sticks of RAM to different slot, no improvement. Ran Windows Memory test, no problems
Changed out CMOS battery still same problem.
Tried flashing all versions of BIOS but would only except 2 as it told me the rest were older then
the board.
Also when I reinstall Windows 10 everything still moves real fast even from the disc.
Trying to reinstall Vista now and same thing, can't even enter the product key because when you type one key it gives you like 8 of what you pressed.
Any suggestion would be greatly apprecated.
Thank you for your time and help.
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