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Anyone have a clue why?

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jonn

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I have a Asus A7V8X motherboard, (VIA 400)with a AMD 1800 (266) palominio CPU
512 meg Kingston 333/2700 ram
Power Color Radeon 9000/128 AGP
Maxtor 60 gig diamond plus HD

I have never ever been able to run games, any game, constant lock up's, blue screens, etc etc. I have tweeked every bios setting, every ATI panel setting, nothing has worked. Been messing with it almost 6 months.
The other day i ran across a post at Via arena about Asus/radeon/ problem. about the same as my problem.
A poster suggested setting the 133/33 cpu buss speed down ONE notch to 132/33 and trying that.
Well i am happy to say i can play everything i throw at this board now flawlessly. In fact everything runs/opens faster than ever. No glitches, no hicups.
Seems to have fixed it totally,
NOW, i wonder and ask, why did this fix it? anyone have a clue?
 
It could be something to do with your memory. The athlon would have no problem running at bus speeds much higher than that. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that different FSB speeds can affect memory timings, which can impact stability. My system, for example, is stable at 214fsb and not 210fsb. It's strange. Sorry, but that's the best explanation I've got, aside from VIA not knowing how to design a memory controller.
 
yes i know Athlons can run much higher, though mine cant being a poly core. And yes i agree too about Via, no more Via boards for me either.
 
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