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replacing CPU causing issues?
I upgraded my cpu to an extreme edition in my laptop and only thing I changed was CPU. memory SSD/HDD everything else in place didnt take them off or anything. after changing CPU I power it up but blackscreen and beeps 4 times which indicated failure memory read/write.
now, my RAM worked fine with the other CPU and I didnt touch it but thinking it might relaly be RAM failure I leave with 4GB (single ram stick) in instead of 8 GB (2x4) and booted up just fine. weird part now is when I got into windows it used VGA display instead of my crossfire graphics card, the hell?
after a reboot, I was running on my graphics card but only now one card is detected from the crossfire and in BIOS, only 1 card is detected too. I have 4 RAM slots and if i were to add anymore RAM, it will not boot. however if I were to put single stick of RAM doesnt matter which RAM stick at which RAM slot, as long as its single stick, it boots just fine.
just what is going on here? some say to reset CMOS should i try doing that?