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Got the stuff in my sig. I'll be redundant in case somebody can't read my sig.
MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR
AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (TB-B core, 333MHz FSB, 256KB L2, '03 week 16)
512MB DDR400 by A-Data (chip is V-Data, but newegg says it's manuyfactured by A-Data?)
Everything worked fine at 180MHz FSB (effective 360). I was gradually raising FSB and vCore. I then moved up to 200MHz FSB (effective 400MHz). Now my diagnostic LED stop at "initializing memory". I hit power button, fans/lights start, and drives power up so I know the proc is fine, but I get no video and a wierd beep pattern*. It might be my video card (Celestica Radeon 9200SE), but I have FSB Spread Spectrum and AGP Spread Spectrum both set to disabled, so I doubt that, and also the "Booting VGA BIOS" LED sequence comes AFTER "Initializing Memory", it hasn't gotten that far. I wonder why a DDR400 chip can't run a 400MHz. I've even tried clearing CMOS and it still doesn't work.
*-Beep pattern is very strange. I've never heard anything similar from any of the computers I've had... I don't exactly remember it, last heard it an hour ago, and now it's not beeping, just diagnostic LEDs are stuck at initializing memory. It think it was something like:
"high-short high-short low-short pause-short low-short"
And it would keep repeating.
Any ideas on getting this fixed? (I recommend nobody buy this brand of RAM if you're planning on using it at rated speed, because it'll probably break...)
MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR
AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (TB-B core, 333MHz FSB, 256KB L2, '03 week 16)
512MB DDR400 by A-Data (chip is V-Data, but newegg says it's manuyfactured by A-Data?)
Everything worked fine at 180MHz FSB (effective 360). I was gradually raising FSB and vCore. I then moved up to 200MHz FSB (effective 400MHz). Now my diagnostic LED stop at "initializing memory". I hit power button, fans/lights start, and drives power up so I know the proc is fine, but I get no video and a wierd beep pattern*. It might be my video card (Celestica Radeon 9200SE), but I have FSB Spread Spectrum and AGP Spread Spectrum both set to disabled, so I doubt that, and also the "Booting VGA BIOS" LED sequence comes AFTER "Initializing Memory", it hasn't gotten that far. I wonder why a DDR400 chip can't run a 400MHz. I've even tried clearing CMOS and it still doesn't work.
*-Beep pattern is very strange. I've never heard anything similar from any of the computers I've had... I don't exactly remember it, last heard it an hour ago, and now it's not beeping, just diagnostic LEDs are stuck at initializing memory. It think it was something like:
"high-short high-short low-short pause-short low-short"
And it would keep repeating.
Any ideas on getting this fixed? (I recommend nobody buy this brand of RAM if you're planning on using it at rated speed, because it'll probably break...)
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