- Joined
- May 26, 2005
- Location
- Northern Virginia
To keep the story short, last sunday the power went out in my complex for a hot second (power spike?) and I go to turn my computer on yesterday and nothing happens. I eventully had to clear the cmos for it to power up. Once I booted up I realized xp was corrupt beyond belief so I go to reinstall it and my computer crashes a few times. I realized it was the burnt CD's fault because previous CD's from the computer I used were all corrupt. However once I finally got XP installed properly I go into the BIOS to setup my previous settings (check sig). Once I do this windows fails to boot and of course BSOD. Even 2250MHz failed to boot into windows with the 166 divider. I messed around with every possible setting in the BIOS that could have an impact and still no go. I finally set the memory divider to 133 and of course I'm sitting here typing this at 2.6 Ghz. My question is, did my platinum2's get dominated from that power spike, or did the memory controller on my cpu get dominated.
EDIT: 2.5-3-3-5 works running the 166 divider..I guess I can't push the mem as hard now
EDIT: 2.5-3-3-5 works running the 166 divider..I guess I can't push the mem as hard now
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