I began the process that bmull laid out when I got home last night, and discovered that what I had thought was a hard drive click was in fact some kind of click-like chirp coming from elsewhere in the system. Very hard for the hard drive to click at bootup when there are no wires at all connected to it. Even harder for it to do ventriloquism under such circumstances.
Furthermore, bad behavior only started happening when I put the memory modules in. I spent some time fiddling about with them in different slots and whatnot, then dug through the mobo's manual to see what it could tell me about memory problems. Surprise, surprise, I found a table of "Qualified DDR2 533 DIMMs" for the mobo that I had overlooked in previous readings of the manual. Surprise, surprise, my memory wasn't on it. According to the manual, it uses PC2-4200 memory modules; the DIMMs I got from the shop were PC2-5300. So it's time to go back to the shop and complain.
In the mean time, though, I have a new PS coming. Newegg ships from a warehouse about five miles from me, it turns out. I ordered it yesterday morning; it should be in my hands when I get home tonight. -- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Furthermore, bad behavior only started happening when I put the memory modules in. I spent some time fiddling about with them in different slots and whatnot, then dug through the mobo's manual to see what it could tell me about memory problems. Surprise, surprise, I found a table of "Qualified DDR2 533 DIMMs" for the mobo that I had overlooked in previous readings of the manual. Surprise, surprise, my memory wasn't on it. According to the manual, it uses PC2-4200 memory modules; the DIMMs I got from the shop were PC2-5300. So it's time to go back to the shop and complain.
In the mean time, though, I have a new PS coming. Newegg ships from a warehouse about five miles from me, it turns out. I ordered it yesterday morning; it should be in my hands when I get home tonight. -- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.