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- Champaign, IL
Hi,
I recently got a 512meg stick of Mushkin level2 3500 ram and put it into my A7N8X Deluxe. Since then, I've had random reboots. I know it has to be because of the RAM because it never did this before.
I ran several MemTest86 tests at my settings before booting into Windows with no errors. I have it currently running at 2-3-3-7 at 200Mhz. I was able to complete MemTest at 210Mhz with 2-2-3-5, but it would reboot the computer once in Windows. Not automatically though, sometimes it'd reboot right when I start up a game, but this last time it did it out of nowhere, about 5 min after playing a game. The other strange thing is that it never reboots when I'm in Linux.
CPU cooling is not a problem, I have an SLK800 with a fast 80mm Sunon. Also, I'm not running Folding@Home or any other strenous program at the time.
So my question is, is this a hardware or software problem? And, do I need more cooling on my northbridge than just the stock Asus heatsink for 200-220MHz FSB? What should I set the voltage on my memory to be? It's currently at 2.6V.
Thanks
I recently got a 512meg stick of Mushkin level2 3500 ram and put it into my A7N8X Deluxe. Since then, I've had random reboots. I know it has to be because of the RAM because it never did this before.
I ran several MemTest86 tests at my settings before booting into Windows with no errors. I have it currently running at 2-3-3-7 at 200Mhz. I was able to complete MemTest at 210Mhz with 2-2-3-5, but it would reboot the computer once in Windows. Not automatically though, sometimes it'd reboot right when I start up a game, but this last time it did it out of nowhere, about 5 min after playing a game. The other strange thing is that it never reboots when I'm in Linux.
CPU cooling is not a problem, I have an SLK800 with a fast 80mm Sunon. Also, I'm not running Folding@Home or any other strenous program at the time.
So my question is, is this a hardware or software problem? And, do I need more cooling on my northbridge than just the stock Asus heatsink for 200-220MHz FSB? What should I set the voltage on my memory to be? It's currently at 2.6V.
Thanks