I have a dated computer. For the past five years i've had no problem with it. It had somewhere in the neighbourhood of 600 mhz. I recently installed by myself an Audigy 2 ZS soundcard, and when I turned on my computer it said that I had 332 mhz of ram. It has completly slowed down and I have no idea how this error came to be. I ran various hardware checking problems and they all said my speed was 332 mhz. When months earlier and even years it was always in the 600's. When i turn on my computer and try and get into the BIOS it keeps saying failure, so I don't know how to adjust this problem.

Several things here: 1. Processor speed in MHz is not a measurement of RAM. Was "332 mhz of ram" a typo? Are you sure the 332 number you are seeing is referring to the processor speed and not the amount of memory installed? Because those are two separate things. 2. A computer as old as yours may have jumpers or dip switches on the motherboard to set CPU speed. Could you have accidently moved one of these while installing the sound card? For help double-checking on this, what make/model is your motherboard? 3. When you try to get into the BIOS at startup, what steps are you taking? I mean, exactly what key(s) are you pressing, etc? Also, what is the exact wording of the "failure" error message you get? 4. If you remove the sound card, is the processor speed correctly reported?