Ok, so I put together a system over my winter break. AMD A64 3500 cpu, pcchips a13g mobo (it was on sale), and 2 sticks of 1gb ddr2, i think its 667 mhz or whatever.
Anyway, when i put it together, it worked. I had it shipped here to me at school in the case and everything, in nice packaging, and it wouldnt boot with any video. Took it to the computer services guy and he ran a diagnostic board on it and its error was c1 on the phoenix bios which had something to do with the ram. He took one stick out and it booted up. He mixed and matched them in different ways, but no continuous pattern. He noticed i didnt have all the screws to hold the mobo in, just like 4 out of 6. it was a quickie, my bad. so he said it could be bad grounding. SO today i put all of them in.. and same stuff. I mixed and matched with the sticks, sometimes it boots sometimes not. When it DOES boot, it is REALLY slow starting up. Takes forever to read my one IDE hard drive and my floppy. It was super fast before.. it seems to boot only when 1 stick is in. but sometimes, like i said, it doesnt boot at all with 1.
So im wondering if i should just buy a new motherboard. Is there anything I could do to speed up the booting process?
It gives me a system disk error too, ill figure that out once i get the mobo runnin quicker...
Thanks for any suggestions!
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