dunnywoods
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Hi all.
Ok so I decided to build my own PC, here are my specs:
ASUS M4189GTD PRO/USB3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor
8GB (4GBx2) DDR3. 1333MHz. Corsair Memory
950W Powercool PSU
500GB Western Digital Hard Drive
23" Samsung Monitor
I also have a ATI Radeon HD 5770 Graphics card which I haven't installed yet.
Additionally I am waiting on my Samsung Blu-Ray disc drive and Windows 7 but I do have access to another disc drive from my old PC until it arrives and I am using Ubuntu until Windows 7 comes.
So, the very first time I booted was fine, the "New CPU installed!" message came up and I entered BIOS and configured the settings. And everything seem to be working great except the screen had a really bad fuzzy/grainy effect on it. So it rebooted after I configured BIOS and the "New CPU installed message!" came up again. I pressed F2 to continue and installed Ubuntu. After some tweaking about with the graphics settings and screen configuration settings I finally got rid of the screen fuzz and I thought I was on my way. Then the next time I booted up the "New CPU installed!" message was back along with the screen fuzz. I tried reinstalling the CPU and I cleared CMOS. This got rid of the screen fuzz issue and the "New CPU installed!" message. Until the next time I booted up. I also began to have problems with my memory. The MemOK! light will continuously flash now whenever I turn on and I can't actually boot unless I clear CMOS (which I am worried about doing to often). It seems to me like the computer can't recognise/ save any of the settings I have previously entered so everytime time I boot up all the problems I thought I had fixed just reappear. I haven't tried a BIOS update yet because it is extremely tricky on Ubuntu and so I was planning on waiting until I got 7 to try a BIOS upgrade. Which I hope will fix my issues. But if anyone has any ideas of what could be causing these problems it would be greatly helped because I am a novice at computer building and may have bitten off more than I can chew for my first attempt.
Thanks for any help.
Duncan Woods
Ok so I decided to build my own PC, here are my specs:
ASUS M4189GTD PRO/USB3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor
8GB (4GBx2) DDR3. 1333MHz. Corsair Memory
950W Powercool PSU
500GB Western Digital Hard Drive
23" Samsung Monitor
I also have a ATI Radeon HD 5770 Graphics card which I haven't installed yet.
Additionally I am waiting on my Samsung Blu-Ray disc drive and Windows 7 but I do have access to another disc drive from my old PC until it arrives and I am using Ubuntu until Windows 7 comes.
So, the very first time I booted was fine, the "New CPU installed!" message came up and I entered BIOS and configured the settings. And everything seem to be working great except the screen had a really bad fuzzy/grainy effect on it. So it rebooted after I configured BIOS and the "New CPU installed message!" came up again. I pressed F2 to continue and installed Ubuntu. After some tweaking about with the graphics settings and screen configuration settings I finally got rid of the screen fuzz and I thought I was on my way. Then the next time I booted up the "New CPU installed!" message was back along with the screen fuzz. I tried reinstalling the CPU and I cleared CMOS. This got rid of the screen fuzz issue and the "New CPU installed!" message. Until the next time I booted up. I also began to have problems with my memory. The MemOK! light will continuously flash now whenever I turn on and I can't actually boot unless I clear CMOS (which I am worried about doing to often). It seems to me like the computer can't recognise/ save any of the settings I have previously entered so everytime time I boot up all the problems I thought I had fixed just reappear. I haven't tried a BIOS update yet because it is extremely tricky on Ubuntu and so I was planning on waiting until I got 7 to try a BIOS upgrade. Which I hope will fix my issues. But if anyone has any ideas of what could be causing these problems it would be greatly helped because I am a novice at computer building and may have bitten off more than I can chew for my first attempt.
Thanks for any help.
Duncan Woods