Recent content by jimp

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    memory question

    Just a heads up on what happened with this. in another forum it was suggested to me that I need to check what slots I was using because this paticular board only makes use of slots 3 & 4 if you have registered ddr. while reading it I realized that my memory was in 3 & 4 (as was the 512 of 2100...
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    memory question

    ok so I am going to take it that this board will run the pc3200? i finaly got tired of watching the little memtest86 after two errors in as many hours and pulled a stick of ram out then tested it with memtest86 another hour, this time no errors, so i tried to reinstall windows one more time and...
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    memory question

    ok i ran memtest86 the first run it spit out 376 errors before i had time to tell from where, so i shut it down and restarted it so i could watch which test failed , i have now made it to the middle of test 4 with no errors????
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    memory question

    so you dont think there should be a problem running pc3200 on this board? I didnt think either stick was bad, they both seemed to function alright in the A64 rig, the just held the cpu back because of the limitations of the memory controller just tried to reinstall XP again and it...
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    Pc Upgrade

    why did they use a kt-800 for all the amd tests..isnt that the chipset that you cant even lock?
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    'Working' light keeps blinking but PC won't start up!

    also did you put the ram back in the same slot you took it out of?
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    memory question

    I just built a new computer, I do alot of video and 3d rendering and some of the programs i use are memory intensive so I got 4 512 pc3200, after building the computer i found out that memory controller dosent like all 4 slots being occupied so i have reverted to 1 gig of ram. well now i have...
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    definitions

    well i guess you guys are right, if you ignore me long enough i WILL go away and quit asking stupid questions...bye
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    best ram

    What would be the ram of your choice if money wernt an object, then if money were ?
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    definitions

    ok i finaly got enough guts back up to try and do this again, working on step 1 of the quick and dirty guide. havent had the computer shut down on me this time, only thing I am doing different is I don't have it in SLI mode and Im using x7 for the cpu instead of x6. now I have made it up to 330...
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    definitions

    well thats a glimmer of hope, wonder if anyone on here has a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI I have gotten this one up to 2487 or something like that using the windows clocking tool that gigabyte sent with the board but I think it should do more if i wasnt bringing the memory bus up with the fsb
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    definitions

    just set them at the lowest possible settings? Found a list on another site that lists clawhammer as another core type, since it is not mentioned here am I to assume it is not a very good choice for oc'ng?
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    definitions

    how do I tell? I'm sure it is though if that is the sucky one of the 2 cpuz says it is a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Code Name ClawHammer brand ID 4 Package Socket 939 Technology 0.13µ Voltage 1.520v Specification AMD Athlon (tm) 64 processor 3500+ Family F Model 7 Stepping A Ext. Family F Ext. Model 7...
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    definitions

    nope I have everything sata turned off in the BIOS one 120G maxtor IDE system drive one 400G 1394B external drive and one 360G SCSI RAID I know I can get way past that with the easy tune 5 windows application but it bumps the memory frequency at the same level as the cpu frequency (210 and...
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    definitions

    ok what am i doing wrong found a section in the BIOS labled "K8 CPU Clock Ratio with the settings of x4 800MHZ x5 1000 MHZ x6 1200 MHZ x7 1400 MHZ x8 1600 MHZ x9 1800 MHZ x10 2000 MHZ so I set it at x6 1200 I couldnt find a SPD setting for the memory but I found a "max memclock"...