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Kurant
04-29-01, 11:44 PM
I recently gave a P3-733 to my brother in law, I ran this chip for close to a year before recently purchasing an athlon. I gave him the pentium with the mobo that I used for it also, I sold the RAM after I stopped using the computer, because the new one used pc2100. Sounds perfectly normal, right? Wrong.

He went out, bought Simple Technologies for RAM. 2 128 meg sticks, both pc133,, I checked and I also borrowed a stick of pc133 ram from the guy I sold them too. This machine will not run at 133mhz FSB. The machine runs perfectly stable, perfectly normal at 132. It will boot to windows, in 133, then give all sorta of protection errors, DLL errors, and even fry the registry somtimes. The 733 is 133mhz FSB chip, which is why this makes no sense. It's the same brand of memory I used on the board before. I've attempted to use both of the sticks of memory by itself, it had no hardware in it, except a ATI Rage 128, CD-ROM and a Hard drive(I took the rest out trying to eliminate the problem). If anyone has ANY idea what the problem may be.

Placid
04-30-01, 12:16 AM
If the registry gets messed up it usually means the hd is having problems, maybe lower the pio-dma mode.
Try that 1st.

Maybe his case isnt vented as well as your's. Are his cpu temps the same?

Then try your power supply in it.
Even thou his may be rated 300w or whatever it may not be sending as much current as your's for ceratin voltages or not as clean of a signal.

alan
04-30-01, 01:01 AM
i once had a similar problem... my old 800eb would run at 132 or 134 but NOT at 133. What it was for me was the video card multiplier wasn't kicking in at 133 and was trying to push the video thru at 1x. at 134 it would kick in the 2x and work fine.

I recommend trying your video card in his machine.

good luck

bdf24
04-30-01, 06:14 AM
What kind of motherboard is it? My BE6-II will not boot into windows at a fsb of 133mhz. I had a 600E and could run at 132mhz and under, as well as 134mhz and above. But would not boot at 133mhz!

I know that the BE6-II is a BX chipset for 100mhz fsb but I know some Abit boards had some problems at that fsb.

Kurant
04-30-01, 11:12 AM
How ironic, this board is also a be6-II.. hehe. I'll check it out tonight and let you all know. Thanks for the help. :)