- Joined
- Dec 19, 2000
- Location
- Stockton Cal, USA, Earth
Ok, so I wait what seems like an eternity for my replacement caps only to find out that the order didn't go thru, so I had to re-order and wait some more.
The caps finally arrive, and I dutifully replace all nineteen bad caps with quality Rubycon capacitors and proceed to load windows, and get Win2000 installed,and just when it starts to load the desktop I get the bsod and a reboot. OK, I figure I must have done something wrong, so I fdisk/reload win2k and it does the same..and at this time, I'm not thinking clearly and think it may have something to do with the 4n1 drivers, so I mess with that for a while, and it still messes up, so I'm thinking hdd getting ready to fail, so I turn on Smart monitoring capability in BIOS, and run everest and see that the hdd is fine, with no errors....so after playing with Win ME, 2k,98, and XP, I decided to try Linux Mint9 (Isadore) and I imediatley see something I should have done in the 1st place....RUN MEMTEST86+. So I run memtest, and after about the 4th test the mem started showing errors up the wazu..now this is ddr400 single stick, so I shutdown and swap out the single for a pair of ddr266...and when I boot up, the board says ram is ddr333. Well, after some researching, I find out that an athlon with a 333mhz bus onboard, you cannot change the memory clock. Luckily I have an Athlon 2000+ with a default 266 bus, so I slap that pup in, and voila! mem is running at 266...Yay!
So I again attempt to load any version of windows I have and I get similar faults. So, this time I immediately run memtest, and what do you know? that ram is toast too. I only tested both sticks together...I may have one good stick, but running win2k with only 256mb of ram is like hauling a load of bricks in a Yugo...it can be done but it's not much fun.
So the whole tower gets put back in the row of "to do later" computers because I don't have the money to spend on ddr400 ram atm.
So I think the board will be stable when I get some proper ram to use but I think it will be long after the Holidays b4 I can get to it again.
With the cooling I have for this rig, I should be able to get 3200+ speed out of the 2500+
So is the normal problems that AMD'ers have? or do I just get lucky
Anyways I want to thank all who have helped me delve into the World of AMD.
P.S. just because the tower went to the back of the line, doesn't mean that I have given up on AMD...yet
The caps finally arrive, and I dutifully replace all nineteen bad caps with quality Rubycon capacitors and proceed to load windows, and get Win2000 installed,and just when it starts to load the desktop I get the bsod and a reboot. OK, I figure I must have done something wrong, so I fdisk/reload win2k and it does the same..and at this time, I'm not thinking clearly and think it may have something to do with the 4n1 drivers, so I mess with that for a while, and it still messes up, so I'm thinking hdd getting ready to fail, so I turn on Smart monitoring capability in BIOS, and run everest and see that the hdd is fine, with no errors....so after playing with Win ME, 2k,98, and XP, I decided to try Linux Mint9 (Isadore) and I imediatley see something I should have done in the 1st place....RUN MEMTEST86+. So I run memtest, and after about the 4th test the mem started showing errors up the wazu..now this is ddr400 single stick, so I shutdown and swap out the single for a pair of ddr266...and when I boot up, the board says ram is ddr333. Well, after some researching, I find out that an athlon with a 333mhz bus onboard, you cannot change the memory clock. Luckily I have an Athlon 2000+ with a default 266 bus, so I slap that pup in, and voila! mem is running at 266...Yay!
So I again attempt to load any version of windows I have and I get similar faults. So, this time I immediately run memtest, and what do you know? that ram is toast too. I only tested both sticks together...I may have one good stick, but running win2k with only 256mb of ram is like hauling a load of bricks in a Yugo...it can be done but it's not much fun.
So the whole tower gets put back in the row of "to do later" computers because I don't have the money to spend on ddr400 ram atm.
So I think the board will be stable when I get some proper ram to use but I think it will be long after the Holidays b4 I can get to it again.
With the cooling I have for this rig, I should be able to get 3200+ speed out of the 2500+
So is the normal problems that AMD'ers have? or do I just get lucky
Anyways I want to thank all who have helped me delve into the World of AMD.
P.S. just because the tower went to the back of the line, doesn't mean that I have given up on AMD...yet