Hello, all I've a might problem, here, maybe someone can help (please!!).
My brother shipped his computer Fedex ground up here to PA for the holiday, but apparently it took some abuse; the (Zalman flowery thing) HS fell off and rattled around the case a bit (he did fill the inside with peanuts). Now he's running this Shuttle with 3x256 2100/2700, and a Barton 2500.
Anyway, it looks like the HS hit the first stick of ram, in the non-DC slot. Now I know this stuff can take some serious abuse, and it doesn't look all that bad, but one of the chips on this stick looks a little bashed, and it doesn't work anymore. Crutial CL2, too, shame.
Now, the computer won't post with anything (including my ram) in the first memory slot. It will post with ram in either or both of the other two, but it always recognizes the processor wrong. 500Mhz, 877Mhz, it's different from time to time. No matter what, though, even if I put the mult to 14x and therefor an XP2500+, it won't get into windows. It starts to and then flashes a blue exception handling error (I'm assuming, it's really like a 1/10 sec flash) and restarts.
Can anyone lend a quick hand? What could be wrong?
TIA, all...
My brother shipped his computer Fedex ground up here to PA for the holiday, but apparently it took some abuse; the (Zalman flowery thing) HS fell off and rattled around the case a bit (he did fill the inside with peanuts). Now he's running this Shuttle with 3x256 2100/2700, and a Barton 2500.
Anyway, it looks like the HS hit the first stick of ram, in the non-DC slot. Now I know this stuff can take some serious abuse, and it doesn't look all that bad, but one of the chips on this stick looks a little bashed, and it doesn't work anymore. Crutial CL2, too, shame.
Now, the computer won't post with anything (including my ram) in the first memory slot. It will post with ram in either or both of the other two, but it always recognizes the processor wrong. 500Mhz, 877Mhz, it's different from time to time. No matter what, though, even if I put the mult to 14x and therefor an XP2500+, it won't get into windows. It starts to and then flashes a blue exception handling error (I'm assuming, it's really like a 1/10 sec flash) and restarts.
Can anyone lend a quick hand? What could be wrong?
TIA, all...