- Joined
- Apr 22, 2004
- Location
- New Hampshire
yeah system was running great, had a ton of fun playing doom3 and battlefrom recently, but i wanted to eek out some more performance without an overclock. So i reboot, go into the BIOS and activate the memory enhancing feature on 875p chipsets, i think it is called PAT or MAT, something like that. So I put it on turbo (options are turbo and standard) and then reboot, everything is okay! So i decide to run a timedemo in doom to see if I got any noticeable increase. so i load it up and walk out for a bit. when i come back everything is a mess, all colors are off, artifacts galore, weird symbols and patterns flashing everywhere. So I go crap!!! and close the demo. and my destop is the same thing! weird dots around my mouse pointer as well as icons and the start button. Sorry i did not take pictures but i was really too pissed off. So I reboot, same problem, and now all my bios screens are screwed up! I tried dvi and vga same deal. I also swapped memory sticks. I even had another brand new motherboard (same kind) and still the same problem!!! I have another p4 processor which i regret not trying, but i reallllly hope it isn't the processor. So the moral for me is: do not tweak, or you will be a sad person. As soon as I get out of class it is off to ups to mail the rma!
boo me!!!
boo me!!!