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    New motherboard is creating 'phantom' RAM and won't recognise the real stuff...

    From browsing around, it seems that the k8t motherboards are a bit picky about what RAM configurations it will accpet, but mine don't seem to be obviously wrong - I mean, they fit in the slots, so they must be the right kind of sticks, right? Is there any way the RAM sticks I've got might not...
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    New motherboard is creating 'phantom' RAM and won't recognise the real stuff...

    No, nothing else. And it's started doing another irritating thing - if you start it up from a complete shutdown, after loading windows the first time, it displays "lsas.exe. The endpoint format is invalid" in a dialogue box. The only button available is "ok" - clicking on it prompts the...
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    New motherboard is creating 'phantom' RAM and won't recognise the real stuff...

    It briefly flashes the MSI logo, then says that there are no SATA RAID controllers installed and spends a few lines huffing and puffing (not a problem because they control extra hard disks, which I haven't got). Then it does the same thing for the Promise SATA controllers (again, no extra...
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    New motherboard is creating 'phantom' RAM and won't recognise the real stuff...

    No, it doesn't say anything about RAM in the POST - not 64Mb, not 762Mb, not anything. There's no video card built into the motherboard, if that's what you mean. But I have installed my old video card to enable me to connect my screen (the motherboard doesn't have a connector for the display...
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    New motherboard is creating 'phantom' RAM and won't recognise the real stuff...

    I have just replaced my computer's motherboard and CPU, from an ancient ASUS model (too old to even be recognised on the ASUS website) and an AMD XP CPU (1.1GHz) to a new MSI K8T Neo motherboard with an AMD Sempron 2.0GHz processor, both brand new. I thought that it would be possible to use all...
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