audiophiler
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Radeon 8500 LE
Hello out there, is there anybody who can help me the problem I am having. I don't know much about computers I can really use some expert help. What is happening to my computer is it would not boot up. In fact, as soon as I turned it on I would get a tone from the speaker that would sound about every 5 seconds or so. My monitor was showing no signal. This was happening for a couple of days until I finally got fed up with it. I needed to get online with it for work. What I did was remove the video card which is a Radeon 8500 LE with 64mb DDR. I reinstalled the card into the mother board and it seems to be working better now. I am thinking there is something going on with this card. Before the bit of my computer not booting up, I was getting alot of blue screens with data on it. The one thing I remember about the blue screens is that it would say at the bottom, starting phycical memory dump. Is that related to the video card problem? Can anyone recommend an upgraded card for around a $100.00 or so. I am using a MSI K7N420 pro with an AMD1.5 ghz socket A processor. Ther are 2 memory sticks in the board at 256 mb DDR 266mhz. I am also willing to upgrade the memory and processor if needed. I don't know what is the maximum this mother board can take for processor and memory sticks. I am looking to get better performance but don't need top notch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Hello out there, is there anybody who can help me the problem I am having. I don't know much about computers I can really use some expert help. What is happening to my computer is it would not boot up. In fact, as soon as I turned it on I would get a tone from the speaker that would sound about every 5 seconds or so. My monitor was showing no signal. This was happening for a couple of days until I finally got fed up with it. I needed to get online with it for work. What I did was remove the video card which is a Radeon 8500 LE with 64mb DDR. I reinstalled the card into the mother board and it seems to be working better now. I am thinking there is something going on with this card. Before the bit of my computer not booting up, I was getting alot of blue screens with data on it. The one thing I remember about the blue screens is that it would say at the bottom, starting phycical memory dump. Is that related to the video card problem? Can anyone recommend an upgraded card for around a $100.00 or so. I am using a MSI K7N420 pro with an AMD1.5 ghz socket A processor. Ther are 2 memory sticks in the board at 256 mb DDR 266mhz. I am also willing to upgrade the memory and processor if needed. I don't know what is the maximum this mother board can take for processor and memory sticks. I am looking to get better performance but don't need top notch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
