mike wrote:
Bob F wrote:

What memory does the munufacturer say it uses?

ddr2 - I still suspect the dd2 sticks to be counterfeit, for one thing
they don't work on a working MB - odd thing is though that with one or
the other or both sticks installed, the cpu fan spins up but nothing
else happens, the monitor stays in sleep mode. I thought I had
another dead MB till I put in a couple of 512 Mb Corsair sticks, then
it started right up.

However, it's not the Lenovo MB that's now running, it's an Asus that
I guess is close enough to be able to use the hdd from the Lenovo,
which comes with Vista installed. At least it's running so far...

My first impressions of Vista is WHAT A DOG of an OS.

IMHO, win7 FEELS faster than Vista, but I think that's just sleight of hand.
Vista takes forever to boot.
Win7 makes the background screen come up faster, but you still can't
do anything. The CPU is pegged at 100% for another minute or more.
Follow some of the tutorials on shutting down processes you don't need.

The difference between tweaked vista and win7 is insufficient to make me
pay for an upgrade.
But I can say the same thing for XP. If you can get drivers, run XP.

One other thing. There's ECC "server memory" that's different. You
sure you
don't have a board pulled out of a server machine?

Mike