Compaq Presario 3200: Videocard Or Ram Problem

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Compaq Presario 3200: Videocard Or Ram Problem, won't allow playing of SIMS 2 game

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megaman View Member Profile	Oct 24 2005, 01:08 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 28-January 05 From: Queensland, Australia Member No.: 10,777	This PC was originally a Celeron 800 with 64mb RAM and (I think) 8mb onboard AGP 3D graphics. Trying to play the SIMS game meant increasing RAM to 256mb and changing case as there is no AGP slot and the case is low profile. As we couldn't get a short low profile videocard I installed an Aopen MX4000 64mb PCI videocard. However, a short period of game play led to a 'screwed registry' message on restart. PC boots to safe mode and shows one bad sector in scan disk. Now the PC disallows BIOS access, will not recognise the 256mb of RAM, still says the registry is corrupted and we cannot reinstall ME from a boot disk as we cannot access the BIOS to change the boot order. Also, we cannot do a hot reinstall of windows ME as the PC cannot/will not boot from the CD. Instead of throwing the PC away, does anyone have some constructive suggestions how to solve the problem. Have been to the HP/Compaq website with no success. -------------------- The definition of success is the ability to survive failure !

Rimmer View Member Profile	Oct 24 2005, 03:00 AM Post #2
Forum Addict Group: Members Posts: 2,159 Joined: 18-March 05 From: near Sydney, Australia Member No.: 14,809	Here's a comment from Izzy in the Games forum: QUOTE So for anyone wanting to play The Sims 2, enjoy playing it i mean. System specs are as reccomended: Reccomended Pentium 4 2.8Ghz or more (Other Processors 3.0Ghz or more) no less than 512mb Ram ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb or higher CD/DVD drive hard drive speed i would reccomend something 10,000rpm but 7,200rpm is ok. at least 5Gb free space. The Sims 2 will not play 100% on any PC built to date. The CPU's aren't large enough yet. But the above specs will give you Enjoyable play. If that opinion is correct I think you have buckley's of running SIMS2. Sorry What model HP is this? You may need to look at resetting the BIOS - have a look at the HP website again for a "clear CMOS" jumper. hth -------------------- Soltek QBIC, Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 512MB RAM, 200GB SATA HDD, ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB, Netgear 54Mb/s WAP, ridiculously expensive Satellite Broadband Windows XP Home SP2, Trend Micro Internet Security, Firefox, Thunderbird, AdAwareSE, Spybot S&D, SpywareBlaster, A-squared Free, Ewido Security Suite.

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