Today, I decided to do a PC upgrade since I would be opening it anyway to remove a CD-ROM drive which I would give to Aphilo’s cousin and also to move my disk temporarily to another PC to retrieve my files and back it up due to a Windows XP crash (what’s new with Windows, ei?). I just did a memory and video card upgrade. So from 512MB RAM, my PC now has 1GB RAM and from a Nvidia MX440 64MB video card, I installed a Nvdia G-Force FX5500 256MB RAM. Well, I just thought of doing the upgrade for a faster PC when programming and when doing some multimedia projects. I know that my video card is no gamer’s dream card, but then again I’m no fully pledged gamer anyway. I just play games as a past time when I want to rest for a while doing programming and not as a habit. 
Installing the video card was easy since it was recognized by my motherboard right after installation. My problem was the additional RAM. I had to change the position of the installed RAM modules until I finally got the proper combination. Based on my motherboards manual DIMM2 and DIMM3 share the same connectors so if I installed a double sided RAM module in anyone of it, the other should be left without anything installed. Since I purchased a 512MB double sided RAM module I installed it in DIMM1 and then DIMM2 and DIMM3 have a 256MB single sided module each. Well, after doing things right on the RAM module positioning, my PC still won’t boot up and it was then I discovered that when I installed the RAM modules, I accidentally moved the video card out of place thus it wasn’t fitted properly into the AGP socket. I was easily able to troubleshoot the problem since based on experience the most common cause of a failed bootups would be a loose video card or memory modules or using incompatible memory modules. Well, after fixing things I started installing Windows XP and all the needed drivers and modules.
I’m not really sure what time is it, all I know is I should be getting some sleep now since my eyes are already starting to close down on me. 
[tags]Video Cards, DDR RAM, PC upgrade, Nvidia G-Force FX5500, Windows XP crash, bootup problems[/tags]
Popularity: 3% [?]