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Newbie trying to Upgrade to XP Pro (XP Home Currently)

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by LufianGuy, Jul 8, 2007.

  1. ddp

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    try your headphones in place of speakers.
     
  2. sammorris

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    Yep, have you tried plugging your speakers into something other than your PC?
     
  3. LufianGuy

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    Give it a try, we've covered most other things!
     
  5. LufianGuy

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    What other things can I hook my speakers up to to test if they work?

    Will my Nintendo DS work for this?
     
  6. sammorris

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    Yep, I did that once, it sounds awesome!
     
  7. LufianGuy

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    Does it matter if on the speakers, you accidentally plug the left speaker into the right speaker spot?

    There are so many cables back here it would take a long time for me to sort them out to know.

    I woke up early and have 3 hours to try to fix this, so I am going at it.
     
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  8. sammorris

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    Not other than the fact that your sound will be reversed, and you can often get software to correct that anyway.
     
  9. LufianGuy

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    Wow you are right, it is pretty sick to hear your DS's sound coming out of speakers, awesome!

    I just gotta untangle the line out cord from all the others so it has room to stretch, THE SPEAKERS ARE GOOD!

    OMG! THE SOUND IS BACK! IT WAS ALL MY FAULT, I WAS PLUGGING THE SOUND INTO THE COMPUTER INSTEAD OF THE SOUND CARD, BOTH HOLES ARE GREEN AND I DIDN'T SEE THE SOUND CARD HOLES!

    I feel like such an idiot punk now, sorry to be wasting your time guys. At least something good came out of this, I was able to replace the windows volume control program thanks to Sam.

    Thanks for everyone's help!

    Now it is time to get back to trying to get the 250GB HDD to be my master.
     
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  10. sammorris

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    Lol it's always the simplest things, happens to me all the time.
     
  11. LufianGuy

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    Well I am a bit worried.

    One of the two jumpers that came with the new 250GB Seagate HDD was a capacity limiting jumper. My Dad accidentally broke one of them and I'm afraid that might have been the one we needed (I'm not sure how to tell the difference between the 2 jumpers).

    We pulled the piece of metal/gold/w/e that was in the rubber jumper cover off the HDD, my question is: Can we just put the piece of metal/gold/w/e back into the rubber cover and it will work or is it broken?

    DDP said to put the jumper from the old HDD onto the new one, which we will try when my Dad is ready to (I can't pull the jumpers off myself, needle nose pliers are too big and I guess I'm not skilled enough, if there is a better way, please tell me).

    To plan ahead, I'm running on 256MB RAM while most of my peers run on 2GB RAM. I want to buy more RAM along with putting in the new HDD, but I am worried because I don't know:

    1. How to tell what kind of RAM I have (Isn't there 3 kinds like DDR or something)?

    2. How to tell how much more room for RAM I have (motherboard and bios or whatever limits your max amount of RAM)?

    3. Where I stick RAM on the motherboard?

    4. What is the best company to get RAM from?
     
  12. sammorris

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    1. Find out what you already have by using CPUZ. Even if it's not able to tell you what sort of RAM you have, we can tell by what motherboard you use.
    2. That depends on which motherboard it is. With DDR1 motherboard, it's usually 1GB per slot you have. DDR2 more like 2GB per slot.
    3. Next to what you have already (or preferably in place of it). It's a small circuit board that sticks out of the motherboard vertically, near the front of your case at the top, usually. It may have a label on it telling you it's 256MB, and who made it.
    4. Corsair. You can buy their XMS or Value range from Newegg, both are good.
    As for the Hard disks, most jumpers are the same, so you shouldn't have a problem, but I'd recommend not limiting the capacity. I'd be surprised if you need a jumper to turn that off, usually you need to put jumpers in to turn on limiting features like that.
     
  13. LufianGuy

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    What is CPUZ? Nevermind, I googled it and am using it now

    If I have my computer sideways the RAM would be sideways also correct?

    Well one jumper was regular and the other jumper limits the capacity of the HDD, so I hope we broke the capacity limiting one. I think they made it to trick computers that couldn't handle 250GB HDDs.

    Is there anyway for me to take pictures of what CPUZ is telling me and post them up here?

    CPU
    Processor: AMD Athlon XP
    Package: Socket A (462)
    Clocks: Supposed to be 1.7, it is telling me 1662.43 MHz

    Memory
    Type: DDR
    Size: 256 MB
    Channels #: Single

    Mainboard
    Manufacturer: Compaq
    Model: O7D0h
    Chipset: NVIDIA nForce Rev. B2

    BIOS
    Brand: Compaq
    Date: 10/15/2002
     
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  14. sammorris

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    Very possibly, Not even Windows XP could support Hard disks larger than 127GB before they made the service packs.

    As for the RAM, if your PC sits on the floor or desk horizontally, rather than as a tower, then the RAM will be facing upwards, coming out of the motherboard at right-angles. I usually talk about components if the PC is lying down since that's usually how I work on them.

    To take a picture of CPUZ, Press the Printscreen (Printscrn) key on your keyboard, open paint (start-programs-accessories) and then go paste. A picture whats on your computer screen will appear in paint. Save that image as a JPEG file (paint can save those in xp), then go to http://imageshack.us
    Use their upload system and then post us the 'direct link to image' at the bottom.

    UPDATE
    CPUZ is telling you your CPU speed correctly, the salesman or Windows is just rounding the figure up. The correct speed for most Athlon XPs is a multiple of 166, so 1666 would be correct (10x).
     
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  15. LufianGuy

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    You have to register with them to delete images, how annoying.

    People can't harm my computer worse if they see the images of CPUZ right?
     
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  16. sammorris

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    Lol no, nobody can get acces to your PC just because they can see what components it has inside.
     
  17. LufianGuy

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    I'm going to take a shower then I'll join imageshack and host the images so you can take a peek.

    WAIT, I CAN'T FIND MSPAINT ANYWHERE!

    I looked in accessories and went to run, mspaint, and my comp can't find it, why am I missing files?!!!!

    I did a search and mspaint was in a restore point folder, so I pasted it back into system32.

    Anyway I can make a shortcut for it in accessories?
     
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  18. sammorris

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    You could try 'pbrush', that's its other name. If that doesn't work either, I could always send you the exe file! :)

    UPDATE

    TO make a shortcut,
    C:\Documents and settings\YOURUSERNAME\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories
    Go right click-> New shortcut.
     
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    Lol interesting Anime background...
    Judging from those pics it looks like you want either PC2100 or PC2700 DDR1 RAM. Get whatever you can find.
     

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