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    Ultra 400 Board

    I appreciate the insight. I bought the 8RDA+ when it first vame out in Dec 02; the 1700 at the same time. I have at time ran the crucial ram at fairly aggressive settings, with stability, but have never tinkered with the cpu volatge and bus frequencies. When I get in from my work, I'll check...
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    Ultra 400 Board

    Gentlemen! I want to replace my 8RDA+ Board. I am currently running 768MB of PC 2100 w a 1700+. I am thinking about purchasing one of the Ultra 400 boards, a 2500+ Barton and bump up the memory to PC 3200. My question is, will I see that great of a performance difference with this purchase...
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    8RDA+ AND 400 FSB?

    I bought the 8RDA+ in December and I am running PC2100. Will the board support the new 400 FSB in PC3200 when the AMD chips come down to earth in price? I can't find anything on the EPOX or NIVIDIA site. The world has been upside down before, magnetically that is.
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    Failed Memory Test

    Well, I did the memory switcher rooskie las tnight. Still will not boot. Sad to say but no one in my small town that I know has DDR RAM to check the sticks out. SO, the obvious question is, what are the chances that two sticks of memory are bad vs something with the motherboard? Also, where...
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    Failed Memory Test

    Gentlemen, My CPU was running fine until recently. Yesterday, I went to resume the computer out of suspend mode, but it would not. I did get it to boot into safe mode, but it will not progress with loading XP beyound the initial blue welcome screen. I cant't even get to the command prompt...
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    XP and Hard Drive

    Two hardrives, one master one slave. I saved ALL of my files (3 Gig+) to the slave because I was doing a clean reinstall of XP Pro. Later when I went to retieve my files from the slave, XP tells me it does not recognize the drive, even though device manager and my bios says it is working fine...