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Roger Tegard

Hi All,

Got an A7N8X Deluxe running a 1600+ and 512 meg Mushkin DDR333(PC2700). Ran
rock solid for about a year. Never a quibble.

Upgraded the CPU to a retail 2800+. Now, occasionally, the system does a
hard lock. It looks like I'm always somewhat busy when it locks - lots of
processes, heavy disk I/O, etc.. Needless to say - a hard reset is very
tough on the filesystem.

I've switched back to the old 1600+ for now. I'm thinking this is a case of
the memory simply not able to function at specs. What do you think?


Roger
 
Roger Tegard said:
Hi All,

Got an A7N8X Deluxe running a 1600+ and 512 meg Mushkin DDR333(PC2700). Ran
rock solid for about a year. Never a quibble.

Upgraded the CPU to a retail 2800+. Now, occasionally, the system does a
hard lock. It looks like I'm always somewhat busy when it locks - lots of
processes, heavy disk I/O, etc.. Needless to say - a hard reset is very
tough on the filesystem.

I've switched back to the old 1600+ for now. I'm thinking this is a case of
the memory simply not able to function at specs. What do you think?


Roger
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I think it's a weak power supply. That's what your symptom points to. It
makes sense, as your processor is drawing more current, and that's before
you add in the fact that your faster processor can cause other components to
draw current faster also, by keeping them running faster trying to keep up
with your faster CPU. -Dave
 
as Anon said, and also your memory timing settings. Whenever I change
out a major piece of hardware I like to reset the cmos.

Joe
 
Roger said:
Hi All,

Got an A7N8X Deluxe running a 1600+ and 512 meg Mushkin
DDR333(PC2700). Ran rock solid for about a year. Never a quibble.

Upgraded the CPU to a retail 2800+. Now, occasionally, the system
does a hard lock. It looks like I'm always somewhat busy when it
locks - lots of processes, heavy disk I/O, etc.. Needless to say - a
hard reset is very tough on the filesystem.

I've switched back to the old 1600+ for now. I'm thinking this is a
case of the memory simply not able to function at specs. What do you
think?
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In the case of the 2800+, is the memory in sync with the FSB at 166MHz ?
RAM timings set manually ?
 
S.Heenan said:
In the case of the 2800+, is the memory in sync with the FSB at 166MHz ?
RAM timings set manually ?
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Yes, the FSB is set to 166mhz and the bios correctly ID the processor as a
2800+. All timings are set to {optimal} which is the "safe" settings on
Asus. I could manually derate the memory settings but I think I'll try a
new power supply first (I ordered a new one about 4 days ago)....


Roger
 
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