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Hayden123

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hi all I never built a computer before so this is my first. I've messed with my brothers and mine so I know how to get the hardware installed right. I'm not sure what I'm doing with bios or software so help is nice.

specs

Foxconn Winfast K8S755A-6EKRS
Amd 64 athlon 3200
Ati X800XL AGP 256mb
Raidmax 420 watt psu
Western Digital SATA 300 250gb HDD

I am thinking about buying 3gbs of samsung ram or 2 gbs of Gskill or OCZ platnum
I am getting every thing running besides ram. I am usuing 256 apacer ram just to build all the computer without the ram. I have the hole thing running but not sure how to really configure any of the bios settings to make the system stable. It keeps getting stop errors and keeps crashing. Please give me a hand
 
Thats a very low quality PSU, btw.

What are the Stop error codes for the BSODs? Those are needed to help diagnose the problem. This page will help with figuring out what to do: http://aumha.org/a/stop.php

Basic hardware tests are below, but the problem could also be software or driver related. So, make sure you have the latest drivers from the manufacturers of your parts.

Google, DL, and burn memtest86+ to a CD and reboot the system. This will test the RAM. Make sure it passes at least several times without errors. If there are errors, your RAM is the problem.

Google, DL, and run prime95 from mersenne.org. Run the small FFTs torture test. If it fails, your CPU is the problem.

Google, DL, and run 3DMark several times in series. If it crashes, your vidcard is the problem.

I'd replace that PSU if I were you. Raidmax doesnt make great PSUs, and thats a nice vidcard that I wouldn't want fried from a bad PSU.
 
Set the BIOS to "default". If you want to turn disable something, then disable seriel and parallel ports (unless of course you are using them).

Check your heatsink is seated correctly and the fans are spinning
 
could you send me a link to the memtest place i went to there website and cant get there download to work
 
well i got it to download now but it wants to put in on a floppy how would do this with out makeing it just a information disk
 
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