Crucial PC2100 DDR w\ Asus A7A 266

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Well I stuck my Crucial in and tried varius Bios's to no avail. The PC just will not boot with a FSB of 133mhz. But will run at 134mhz FSB, But just does'nt seem to be very stable. So last night I decided to try the board in Jumper mode only. Worked flawlessly. Except for the memory scores went down over 100 points with Sisoft. But ran very stable. Another down fall to using strictly jumpers is I can't adjust the Vcore. So I can't run the system any faster then 1.333 ghz without loosing any stability.

Any Idea's before I send the chip back to crucial for another try. I know it's the board and not the ram, But they said there still willing to exchange it for another 256 meg stick. There even willing to give me 2 128 sticks to try if another 256 meg stick does'nt work.

I must say they have EXCELLENT service. The best I've ever seen so far.

[bdf24]

Well I have an update. I have been running the board in jumper mode only. I got my memory scores back to what they were before. And the PC is 100% stable. So I think I'm going to keep the ram I have and just live with it till I decide to get a better DDR board. But I'll have to hold on to this one for now (wife will kill me if I get another board now). Performance difference is very noticible over running PC133 SDram. I guess I'm satisfied for now. Maybe a future bios update will fix my problem.