jimbob1 Wrote:
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> clear the cmos or just remove the m/b battery for
> about 10mins..unplug from the mains as well....you
> said this started after putting it into
> hibernation mode ? was is working ok before this ?
Hmm it's fixed now - I just got a 2nd hand replacement of the same type of board (apparently it was new old stock or something and is actually new and unused). But anyway I think my motherboard was just faulty as one time my power supply blew up and killed it, the processor and my mouse and keyboard and when the motherboard was repaired they seem to do a crap job each time as it died again and was repaired again by Asus only to die this time. At least this "new" one shouldn't hopeful be so dodgy.
gav Wrote:
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> Daniel Knott Wrote:
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> > I'll probably end up putting a bit more ram in
> > this for xp since its so dirt cheap - how much
> can
> > xp support? 2gb? or is it more? currently have
> 1gb
> > anyway (2 * 512 or whatever exact number they
> are
> > :P) and 4 slots so 2 free so I guess xp is the
> > limit haha.
>
> XP 32-bit can address around 3.2GB with most
> modern graphics cards. Any single process (let's
> say application) can address 2GB. It's not a limit
> of XP itself, but of every 32-bit operating
> system, Vista 32-bit included. 64-bit (including
> XP64, which is a different OS to XP so licenses
> can't be swapped around) raises the limit to
> something silly that we'll never see used in a
> standard workstation in the next decade or 2.
>
> Just beware that some older boards can be a bit
> picky with all 4 RAM slots filled, so if you
> experience instability that may be the cause.
Ah ok. I'll try 2GB then and see how it goes. Could go for 3 but there isn't quite as much point and with 2 it's easy just to use 3 slots then.
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