i had a athlon 64 3000+ and wanted something more powerful and looked into getting dual core. I checked which cpu my motherboard can take and went for a athlon 64 3800 x2. Got it today and booted up fine. But when it tried loading xp, after the loading startup screen it reboots. It keeps doing this if i leave it running. So i thought i'll format hard drive and install xp. But when i got to the first screen when the cd files have loaded, i press enter and get big columns on the screen and this keeps happening on every attempt. i have also tried installing vista but after the loading cd files it restarts. i thought that i might need to update the bios for dual core processors, when i downloaded it on my other computer and ran the file, it said that it was corrupt and asked me to source another file of it. But i got it from the hp website!! so it should of worked. My pc- Hp Pavilion A1000 Motherboard ms-7184 Athlon 64 x2 3800 2 x 256mb ram sticks 100gb hard drive PSU- 300w I'm stuck here, would really appreciate some help. Thankyou soo Much!
It could be overheating... Did you put thermal paste back on the cpu and seat the heatsink on correctly?
yes i renewed the paste with some more advanced stuff. i've got it working now, i had put the 2 sticks in different slots i.e. slot 1 and 4 . so i couldnt use dual channel which is weird. i bought 2more sticks of ram a 512mb and a 256mb , and i tried all 4 sticks together and it worked. why how come? they arnt faulty sticks or slots so why is it being a pain in the back side?
Indeed, dual channel memory needs to be setup with a gap between the sticks. If you wanted two stick dual channel, your slots would be: RAM Empty RAM Empty if you wanted dual channel with 4 sticks: Type 1 Type 2 Type 1 Type 2 Where type 1 is one set of RAM, and Type 2 is the other set.
