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I have a Barton 2500+ overclocked to 2800+ speeds...

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Kaieye

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I was using a pc3200 memory(two sticks and running great!) 512 each on a Asus Nvidia chipset motherboard and decided to remove the old memory. I then substiuted two sticks of PC2100 just to see what happens. I believe I hosed my OS and had some kind of windows corruption problem and it asks to do a repair to fix the OS.

Can you damage a memory stick because one of them seems to have a problem right now. That is, one stick is broken but the other is fine. I am writing about one of the PC2100 memory stick and I did reset the bios to default. I did not install the old pc3200 memory because that was used on another system.
 
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Then IMHO it's unlikley you damaged it.

I doubt the PC will run great either. Your CPU operates with a FSB of 166mhz. The ram is only rated for 133mhz. Depending on how your is BIOS set, it is either using a divider (which doesn't work to well on that platform) or is trying to run the ram too fast.

Fern
 
Originally posted by: Kaieye
I was using a pc3200 memory(two sticks and running great!) 512 each on a Asus Nvidia chipset motherboard and decided to remove the old memory. I then substiuted two sticks of PC2100 just to see what happens. I believe I hosed my OS and had some kind of windows corruption problem and it asks to do a repair to fix the OS.

Can you damage a memory stick because one of them seems to have a problem right now. That is, one stick is broken but the other is fine. I am writing about one of the PC2100 memory stick and I did reset the bios to default. I did not install the old pc3200 memory because that was used on another system.
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ya, that can happen when you overclock your RAM too much??? wtf, though, why were you using PC2100 when you have PC3200, 400 DDR MHz > 133/266 DDR MHz...

edit: it doesn't break your RAM, but it will write corrupt data to the hard disk, or you may get Windows Protection errors.

BFonnes
 
My hard drive was corrupted but I was curious. This system was in my "junk" pile and I was just wondering...
 
The rams are OK, IMHO. But a Barton runs at 166 FSB so the PC2100 will not work. If you want to check if the rams are still OK, and to verify if the hdd is actually corrupted, try running the system at 133 FSB by changing your settings in the bios. This is called underclocking. It will work but slower. But this is only to check if the rams are OK and at the same time if the hdd is corrupted. If the hdd is corrupted you need to fix that first and then run memtest on the rams. After that you can go ahead and re-install your PC3200.
 
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