Recent content by trnqk7

It was the thermal protection. Is installing updates now at a nice and cool 32C. 40C is the highest it has shown according to the monitor now. Good easy fix, the kind I like! Boo for stock heatsink paste...should have known better. I did adjust the ram timings down to GSkill's published...

Will try after I fix something else-noticed after installing some chipset drivers that the cpu was up to 88C. Obviously I didn't get the heatsink seated properly. Waiting for it to cool down a couple minutes, then will try that. If that doesn't fix it, I'll try the ram voltage.

Just finished a new build last night: Gigabyte UD4P mb Intel i5 750 GSkill 1066 4GB ram WD 640GB Black Edition Sapphire ATI 4870 Vapor-X edition Enermax 600W PSU (Noisetaker II) Originally I had a Antec Earthwatts 500W psu that came with my Antec case. I would try loading Vista...

I just installed SP2 and the Rise of Nations expansion...with locked up the system. After the reboot, I started it again, and it locked up again. I left, after telling it to shutdown, only to find it still hung up with the ending program message. Hit the reboot button on the case only to have...

I'm having trouble installing WinXP Pro...dumb, I know. When I go to install it, I get to the the loading windows executable file, and then stops, saying it can't load \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe. Then hit any key to restart. I'm at a loss as to what the issue is. I thought maybe the disk was dirty...

Hmm, tried the ram suggestion, well, at least in the two dimms I can reach without removing my hd's. Am thinking there was something about having to use the dimm that's a pain in the ass to get to though if you are just using one stick of ram. However, each move I made produced different codes...

Being the friend talked about....I don't remember the number specifically, but it is the epox nforce2 board with the onboard 64mb graphics card. I camed home at 3am and when I went to check email, nothing happened. I tried restarting several times, but it doesn't even makes the beeps when it...