shawn_selig29

hi, i've been trying to get a freinds computer going now for a month or 2.... been trying to replace almost all parts.... i just recived the cpu (754 amd athlon cpu)... and the mb was tested by mercury fine... but now after i hooked it up, i push the power button and with all the ram in... the cpu fan spins for couple seconds..no video.. then off... so i tried pulling out all ram... it stays on but no video.... so then i put one ram stick in the dim2 slot... it stays on but no video.... and then when i put one rma stiuck only in dim1 it stop.... what might this mean?... could it possibley be mb shorting out off case?, thxs, shawn

i got vista as well...i just downaloded newest version from there site.. and installed no problems... gl

ok... it works with cache disbaled.... but very very slowly...lol..... so know that could mean a new cpu.....anything to test it with... thxs, shawn

i will try that... although it will prolly take a hour to bootup..lol... if it does boot does that mean cpu is bad?, thxs, shawn

ok..i still can't figure this out.....i re enabled the processor cahe i guess.... and it runs much faster... but kicks out wiht protection error right at desktop.... can any one help me?.. thxs, shawn

where is the option for that?.i went threw the whole bios setting and only found them options for cache..... btw the windows 98 setup is still going for the last couple hours...lol....

ok....thxs to all trying to help.... i was playing with it for a while today... where i already had xp setup running on the computer.. i went into bios and truned off both l1 and l2 cahce are disabled... then it boots very very very slow.... but no blue screen.... so now i'm installing windows 98 se... its been like 1 hour so far... its been going so slow..still on 5 % copied files.... it took forever to do stuff that it use to do faster with cache on.... so my question is... is this normaly... thxs, shawn./.

ok..thanks i will look at that... i will reinstall win 98se back.... and i will take a look through the bios.. but from memory.. i don't think there is no laod factory defualts.. btw this is the computer: Lenovo Support & downloads - Aptiva 2170-18U support http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss...p;validate=true thanks, shawn

hi guys, i'm trying to fix a computer for a freind, its a older ibm windows 98 machine... with 94mb ram.. amd 500mhz amd cpu....i had to replace his old hard drive as the old one had so many bad sectors... now when i installed windows 98se at first... the setup process went fine as i can tell.... but after setup fisnhed and it went to desktop.. it came up something like "windows system protection error... system hlauted press any key to continue"... even if u try to press a key it doesn't do anything..... but i tried going into safe mode with windows 98 and it went.. so i decided to play with startup options.. still a no go.... so i decided to give windows 2000 professional a try.... after setup during the boot logo....it gives me a blue screen of death....(i didn't write down the error it gave me).... then i went to xp professional.... same problem... done setup.. during boot logo at startup.. i get a blue screen of death saying this: "Stop:0x0000008e (0xc000001d, 0x805501a0, 0x00000000)" i tried taking out every pci card... and still a no go.... right now its just the hard drive, ram, mb , cpu, cd drive... and everything on mb hookedup... ... can anyone help, thxs shawn.

hi, guys... i found this site from google.... i visit other forums site alot... and i hope i will this site too...looks pretty cool.... keep up the good work... btw.. i'm 17 and from canada...