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- Jan 21, 2003
And I mean the damned thing won't even POST at 200 x anything. Equipment is an Antec 400w, 512 x 2 of HyperX PC3000 tested to 215, and three different CPU's, tbred b1700+, 2000+, and a barton 2500+.
This is my buddy's and he's getting frustrated as hell. His first one was ok, but wouldn't do past 180 FSB. The second one spontainiously rebooted. Now this one tops out at 185, and we aren't even sure that's stable yet. All the rails read ok on the power supply with a quality multimeter, the CPU's are all well within what they can run at, vdimm and vdd are cranked to BIOS limits, I just don't get it. He isn't running dual channel, has tried just one stick, he tried different multipliers, super lax ram timings, everything but a BIOS flash that I can think of. He's too chicken to do that so he's dropping it off in the morning for me to try.
Only think I can think is that the PSU is flakey in some way that he hasn't tested... I don't think the BIOS would be so bad that he can't even see a post at 200 x 5...
BIOS flash, then try my Antec 550 I guess. Any other ideas? He's a bit chicken so I don't think he'd be down for me blowing bridges on his CPU or anything.
This is my buddy's and he's getting frustrated as hell. His first one was ok, but wouldn't do past 180 FSB. The second one spontainiously rebooted. Now this one tops out at 185, and we aren't even sure that's stable yet. All the rails read ok on the power supply with a quality multimeter, the CPU's are all well within what they can run at, vdimm and vdd are cranked to BIOS limits, I just don't get it. He isn't running dual channel, has tried just one stick, he tried different multipliers, super lax ram timings, everything but a BIOS flash that I can think of. He's too chicken to do that so he's dropping it off in the morning for me to try.
Only think I can think is that the PSU is flakey in some way that he hasn't tested... I don't think the BIOS would be so bad that he can't even see a post at 200 x 5...
BIOS flash, then try my Antec 550 I guess. Any other ideas? He's a bit chicken so I don't think he'd be down for me blowing bridges on his CPU or anything.