800 is a very odd duck number considering RAM modules at the lowest come in 128 which means your either running mixed memory or you have a shared device taking system memory. For the 600 - 1024 range you have (640, 768, 896, 1024), would it be a correct assumption that your GPU is integrated and using system memory?
He's talking about speed, not quantity. Thanks for trying to help.
As far as the ram, it is Kingston PC 6400 Hyper X 2gig (2 sticks of 1 gig ram) duel channel. I had to kick it down from 800 MHz to 662 MHz, it just keeps restarting when I kick it up to 800 MHz. The GPU is a eVga nVdia 8600 GT PCI-E. It's all about 6 months old, well that's when I ordered it.
This is most likely caused by two things. One, having your PCI-E bus speed linked to your FSB which causes your video card to crash, and two, manipulating RAM speed by changing your FSB instead of adjusting the ram/FSB multiplier. If you really want to run the ram at 800 (it'll make virtually no noticeable difference), post your BIOS version here. Regardless of the speed you run the ram at, you should unlink the PCI-E bus from the FSB. If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say that you're probably trying to do some sort of jury rigged software based over clock that's not giving you much benefit, and is very likely putting your system at risk of breaking stuff.
If you want to overclock, post about it, along with your BIOS and hardware info, and I can walk you though it from BIOS setup and how to test it for stability and risk
On the Sata Drive vs the IDE drive, Windows doesn't really care much. The original replier is right (sorry, I'm editing, I can't see the screename) in that just reformatting is by far the easiest thing to do. I could walk you through using GParted to change it, but you don't really want two drives with XP System filesystems on them anyway.
Good luck.
Edited, Feb 29th 2008 6:30pm by Smasharoo
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