Jelly Bean

Hello and welcome to the forum. My sugestion is you can purchase a long eithernet cable to connect the hub to the computer. I think your instructions were clear.Your hub is to far away from your computer and the eithernet cable supplied by BT is is to short? JB.

Hey Shrimply. Yeay. Ok lets get you started. The first job is to fit your processor. First go wash your hands so you dont transfer any dirt. Do not build on the carpet. Use a table. Open CPU and lay out on the table and then open mainboard and lay on the table. Fit the processor and cooler to mainboard.Do not forget to check there is thermal paste already applied to cooler/CPU. Fit mainboard to removable back plate,remove back plate from computer first. Make sure you use the little stand offs,usaly a brassy colour. Fit the stand offs to the back plate so they coinside with your mainboard holes. Fit mainboard using the rubber washers on both sides of the mainboard before screwing mainboard to stand offs. Do not over tighten the screws. Then open your power supply and fit inside the computer case. Make sure it is firmly screwed into place. Then carefully slot mainboard,CPU and back plate into the tower. I hope these instructions make sence,just ask me if you need more clearer ones. Make sure you remove any outter packaging from the hardware.

Hello vance and welcome to the forum. Firstly please could you post your computer hardware specifications as this can help us help you. Download and run and only post your hardware: Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit Then power off the computer and clean internals. Then download and run SpeedFan and post a screen shot of the results: SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer Go the the computer manufacturers website,under there support tab/driver downloads put in the make and model of computer and what operating system you are running were asked to. You will then be given a list of hardware drivers to download/install and run. Under accessoreies/system tools do a defragment of your hard drive. Try removing all external hardware connected to your computer that is not needed to start the computer.Then restart the machine and see if it boots up faster. JB.

That is excellent Maynard. I have found no real help for people on the error popups so if I can get them to test the addons or use FireFox and let me know how it goes we may get somewere on what is the real issue. But so far FireFox is excellent and no errrors.

I have recieved a large number of help requests for FaceBook continual popup errors and have been searching for a fix. So far I have come up with the following: Open Internet explorer and then click Manage Addons. Locate any FaceBook addons and delete them. Restart Internet Explorer and try FaceBook again are you getting the popup errors? Addons are not realy required and can cause issues in IE and slow loading web pages. I did note that while using FireFox I incurred no popup errors. Try downloading FireFox,install and try Facebook and see if you get the dreaded popup errors. Download FireFox from: Firefox web browser | Faster, more secure, & customizable | Mozilla Europe You can import your fav links from IE to FireFox so do not worry about adding them one by one. Please let me know how the above goes. JB.

If your a high ended gamer then go for a quad. If you play medium rated games and lets say a bit of surfing and downloading then just get a dual core.

Nope. Each core uses diffrent processes. The game would be split between all four cores. Multi-core - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia If you played a high ended game on a single core lower graded CPU you would proberly find the CPU is at 100% all the time. With the new multi cores the would be shared with the four cores,then add to that 2 gig RAM at least. Spreading processes over the four cores means each core will smoothly run the computer and the game.

Hello Magpie. You are correct,each core runs at 2.5 GHZ which makes total of 10 if it is a quad core. Each core runs diffrent processes on the computer.

You are very welcome rainman.

Oh yeah start a thread in the computer building section.It can them help others. Excellent idea.

Once you have all the parts pop back to forum and we can help you each step of the way. We can even post pictures that would help on were every thing goes. First thing I usaly do is install the mainboard on its standoffs. If the CPU is not already attached I install it before installing the mainboard into the case. Then install PSU. Then start to install other hardware and then power connects.

Please feel free to pop back to the forum if you need any more help,we will be pleased to help. :) JB.

Use a computer that can connect to the internet. Go to your computer manufacturers web site and under there support tab choose your make and model of computer/laptop and it will give you driver downloads. Download and save the drivers on the computer then transfer to the none connecting computer/laptop using a USB flash drive,Floppy disk or a CD/DVD disk and install them. JB.

That is excellent. It may not be the 256 is corrupt but that there was a conflict with the mixed modules which in event showed Memtest to show errors. Then again the 256 could have errors but I would say more a conflict. You could upgrade the RAM to 2 gig if when you have spare cash they machine would fly. Sorry for late reply I have been out on two computer jobs today. JB.

That s excellent Susan I am glad your up and running and a good fresh install. I think that message was a little harsh there Susan from another member. Sorry about that one. JB.

I agree with TooTech I also do not fit a front case fan unless it is a higher spec computer that needs the extra cooling.

I agree on the hardware possibility of a fault.

I would certainly remove the 256 mb stick and try it with only the one gig in. That is possibly your issue,mixed RAM modules.

Do you both sticks in 256 + the 1 gig? Can you run this and post results please: RAM Memory Upgrade: Dell, Mac, Apple, HP, Compaq. USB drives, flash cards, SSD at Crucial.com Full results. If you have both sticks in this could be the problem a lot of computers and latops do not take mixed RAM sticks.

If it shows errors the RAM is bad. Could be faulty batch. You would of been better buying Kingston or Corsair RAM.

That looks great. I would prefer Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse though. The wireless card?To cheap look at Belkin and D-Link ones.

That doesnt look good it appears the RAM is shot.

Please do not change any settings on speedfan. Can you post me a screenshot of the temps please?

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Download and run this and check your temps. SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer Let us know if they show flames on any item and then list temps. Just to see if the computer appears to get hot pritty fast or during a lot of running processes. Updating hardware drivers from the computer manufacturers website under support tab may also help.