Nihilus5078 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Holy @#$%ing @#$%! The virus attaches and the motherboard gets shot in the head, Holy @#$%! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calax Posted August 21, 2009 Author Share Posted August 21, 2009 It's not a virus, that much is certain given the bios still works (if you yank off all the extra parts). But I think the motherboard just gave up. So, currently I'm looking for a socket AM2 motherboard so I don't have to re-buy both the mommyboard and the processor. Anyone got any ideas for where to get one? I think that socket has pretty much been discontinued. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadly_Nightshade Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Holy @#$%ing @#$%! The virus attaches and the motherboard gets shot in the head, Holy @#$%! Nope. It was not a virus. "Geez. It's like we lost some sort of bet and ended up saddled with a bunch of terrible new posters on this forum." -Hurlshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humodour Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Holy @#$%ing @#$%! The virus attaches and the motherboard gets shot in the head, Holy @#$%! I hear they have unicorns in Minnesota. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calax Posted August 21, 2009 Author Share Posted August 21, 2009 after talking with the family me and mi padre decided to get a new mommyboard this and a core 2 duo e8200 for 210... and maybe I'll pick up another two gigs of ram (bringing me to 6 total). Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 If you didn't already, then you are going to need x64 Windows (or whatever OS) now “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calax Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 If you didn't already, then you are going to need x64 Windows (or whatever OS) now well... I'm on it now and I didn't need to upgrade windows so *shruggles* Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slinky Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Sorry if I misunderstood something, but if you don't have 64bit OS your PC uses only about 3 - 3.5 Gb of your memory. It's some stupid limitation in 32bit Windows. So if you want to use all of your 6 Gb memory you need 64bit Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calax Posted August 25, 2009 Author Share Posted August 25, 2009 Sorry if I misunderstood something, but if you don't have 64bit OS your PC uses only about 3 - 3.5 Gb of your memory. It's some stupid limitation in 32bit Windows. So if you want to use all of your 6 Gb memory you need 64bit Windows. *shrugs* I donno, I think my Windows is 64 bit, my task manager says I have four gigs of memory (max for the board I purchased) runnin. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slinky Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I donno, I think my Windows is 64 bit, my task manager says I have four gigs of memory (max for the board I purchased) runnin. Then you have a 64bit windows, so you are fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lare Kikkeli Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I've got 4 gigs of ram and my 32bit XP can utilize 3.75 of it. Considering the really ****ty driver situation of 64XP i think it's a fair tradeoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slinky Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 (edited) I've got 4 gigs of ram and my 32bit XP can utilize 3.75 of it. Considering the really ****ty driver situation of 64XP i think it's a fair tradeoff. I think it depends on how much memory your graphics card has. If you have 4Gb RAM and a g-card with 256Mb memory, usable amount of RAM is 4Gb - 256Mb = ~3.744Gb. I have no idea why it works like that on 32bit OS. And I think (I'm far from sure) a single program, like a game, can use only 2Gb memory on 32bit OS. If you have 64bit OS, programs can use all of your memory. If someone knows better, feel free to correct me. Still, I too have 4Gb of RAM and a 32bit XP. It hasn't bothered me yet, but I will move on to 64bit W7 later this year. Edited August 26, 2009 by Slinky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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