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Fixed a familiar K7s5a Prob

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Puer Aeternus

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I have had probs w/ my 2nd rig(K7s5a) rebooting or not booting at all. It also will only boot at 100/100 even though my mem is pc133 and a 1600xp proc.
I got a deal on some *pc3200 ddr and swapped out the old pc133 for the DDR. it boots at 133/133, no reboots and all games work fine.

I had read that this mobo is fickle w/ pc133 ram. Switching to DDR was the solution.

*I know my kingston 512 pc3200 is being wasted on this mobo, but i got it for really cheap. I prefer to have it in my kt600 mobo but not willing lose the 1 gig of 2700 ddr for 512 pc3200.
 
I was running 256 pc100 on my k7s5a for a while. Upgraded to 512 pc133 and it wouldn't take the pc100 anymore after that. Upgraded to 512 pc2100 and now it won't boot at all with the same stick of 512 pc133 I had used in it for 6 months. I put the pc2100 back in and it boots fine. Weird board...
 
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