Weirdness with my clock speed

kvilbig · 10-13-2003, 05:02 AM

Alright... for some reason my system gets memory faults (I think that's what it is) when I run at my "normal" clock speed. 133 MHz

Running at 100 I seem to have no problems, but I do have occasional weirdness.

The only explanation that myself and my roommate came up with is that either my motherboard or RAM is just going bad...

I have a 1.33 GHz AMD on an ASUS A7M 266 and 384 MB of DDR memory. 2 sticks, both of which are 266MHz RAM.

dalek · 10-13-2003, 06:16 AM

Are both sticks of memory the same brand? Sometimes they don't like to be mixed.

You may try removing one and see if it is stable. If it is then swap and see if it is the same with the other. If it fails with only one, then that one may be bad. Make sense??

If it fails with both, one at a time, then it may be something on the mobo or something else. Unless both are bad, not likely but possible.

Did I say that so it makes sense? I have been up all night.

One eye closed already.

Later.

kvilbig · 10-13-2003, 07:35 AM

Already did the swapping thing... I tried all of the basic stuff to try and isolate the problem off of my mobo and CPU...

I probably need to upgrade anyways *sigh*

Thanks for the help

dalek · 10-13-2003, 07:42 AM

You're welcome. Wish I could have helped more. If you use Linux on your new stuff, look here:

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatibility.html

Help you weed out things that won't work.

kvilbig · 10-15-2003, 07:22 PM

Thanks!