Recent content by phazed

Nononono... I'm not saying use your own ram, I'm saying have the Dell people send the ram to the owner of the PC instead of the service tech.

If you're comfortable doing it, just tell the Dell tech to send him the ram instead of dealing with Dell's 3rd party repair techs.

Yep... clear it with the jumper... make sure you read the mbd manual on how to do this correctly.

Try clearing the NVRAM and then load the optimized defaults in the bios, then install windows.

Have you checked the IRQ sharing? Sometimes windows shares IRQ's in a way that causes the stutter. If that's the case, you might want to move around some of your PCI cards (check the mbd manual for what IRQ goes to what slot). I actually had this problem a while ago... my vid crd, snd crd and...

You might want to set an initial IDE delay in the BIOS too... try 3-6 seconds. Also try swapping the power connector with another... and make sure it's not a split cable (like if you have a 4-pin fan).

Well... I set the DIMM voltage to 2.7 and the error count went to hundreds instead of thousands... I turned on the spread spectrum to .5% and it dropped to around 50... I set it to 2.8, turned on the spread spectrum to 1% and it was under 20. I checked the Corsair boards and the spec sheet for...

It turns out that the primary HD was hosed... after staring at the post screen for so long, I finally noticed that my Maxtor drive was reading Mahtor with some ascii garbage after it... I ended up tossing the drive (it was only 15gigs), putting the 2nd HD as primary, formatted it and all is now...

Has anyone had any trouble with these boards being unstable with the ram at 166mhz? Here's the setup: Asus A7N8X rev2.0 (nforce2 - ultra400 chipset - most recent BIOS) Corsair TwinX PC2700 (256mb X 2 - 2-2-2-5-T1) AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton - 333FSB) If I run the ram in single or dual...

I was wondering if anybody has ever seen this happen or know how to fix it... I have an Abit KR7A (KT266A chipset) motherboard that won't boot from any HD. Here's what happens after POST: Verifying DMI... GRUB That's it... just... GRUB. The only reference I can find is a linux bootloader...