Recently I shorted my Motherboard [stupidly by plugging a side fan in a Molex whilst the power was still on].I had done this hundreds of times before, maybe this time lady luck was pulling a "sicky".I'll continue in my own verbose way[for the none pretentious of you that means " overly wordy"] .I got a new ASUS M4N98TD EVO and set it all up only to be confronted with a none booting P.C..At this point I was about to physically boot the damn thing myself.After a simple R.A.M. swap I
learned that one of the 2gig sticks of my memory appeared to be faulty as it booted up when I took it out and everything was fine.I assume it must have also been affected.Success.......so.........Question number 1.After installing the new Motherboaed and sorting the R.A.M. out I wondered do if I needed to re install the nvidia chipset driver.Also I decided to uninstall the old Nvidia GRAPHICS driver[using the windows 7 tool] and then installed the latest one 266,58.I do not know if this bears any relevance on the chipset driver question..............................Question number 2.On my Motherboard there are blue and black slots where you put the R.A.M. in. I have mine in the blue slots,what is the difference between these different coloured slots and is it worth me trying my "faulty" R.A.M. stick in them.[probably a decidedly dumb question]................finally.......................Question number 3.Now that I am in the position of having only 2 gigs of R.A.M. rather than my usual 4,should I bother getting another 2 gigs or more even.To be honest I have not noticed much of a difference .The rest of my P.C. comprises of 2 Pallit GTX geforce 460s running in S.L.I.,a phenon 2 x4 965,[nothing is overclocked]and as I have said 2 gigs of DDR3 Samsung R.AM. Thankyou for taking the time to read my questions and I hope you can offer some help .
learned that one of the 2gig sticks of my memory appeared to be faulty as it booted up when I took it out and everything was fine.I assume it must have also been affected.Success.......so.........Question number 1.After installing the new Motherboaed and sorting the R.A.M. out I wondered do if I needed to re install the nvidia chipset driver.Also I decided to uninstall the old Nvidia GRAPHICS driver[using the windows 7 tool] and then installed the latest one 266,58.I do not know if this bears any relevance on the chipset driver question..............................Question number 2.On my Motherboard there are blue and black slots where you put the R.A.M. in. I have mine in the blue slots,what is the difference between these different coloured slots and is it worth me trying my "faulty" R.A.M. stick in them.[probably a decidedly dumb question]................finally.......................Question number 3.Now that I am in the position of having only 2 gigs of R.A.M. rather than my usual 4,should I bother getting another 2 gigs or more even.To be honest I have not noticed much of a difference .The rest of my P.C. comprises of 2 Pallit GTX geforce 460s running in S.L.I.,a phenon 2 x4 965,[nothing is overclocked]and as I have said 2 gigs of DDR3 Samsung R.AM. Thankyou for taking the time to read my questions and I hope you can offer some help .
