BSOD?

Hi

What i meant was, I had a Gigabyte S478 board, 8S661FXMP-RZ, with DDR333 and a Celeron CPU.

The RAM died and I discovered that I could only use the new DDR400 RAM with an FSB800 CPU.
The board would not post with DDR400 and Celeron FSB533 CPU... no amount of BIOS fiddling could get the 533FSB chip to work with DDR400 RAM.

I had to use DDR333/DDR266 with that FSB533 CPU on this board.

A 2nd hand P4 FSB800 chip sorted this out.

I ended up having to match CPU FSB on this machine.

sajunky said:
Not this one. In auto mode it selects optimum (the fastest) RAM speed based on SPD. Not sure if found two different modules; it picks up the slower one or just looks for one slot. Even if picks up the slower one, what happen if DDR400 has incompatible timing in DDR333 mode?
Lastly, old mobos don't like high density chips. Typical example is i440BX chipset which detects such modules as having half capacity. And if you mix it with other modules it appears to work, but memory test fails or simply hangs due to the conflict on the memory bus. Only very early 256MB modules work on these boards, it was pain in ass sometime ago to find a right memory for my Asus P2B.
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Would you like to try different CPU? I don't remember correctly, it was long time ago, kilobits might be right in this case. I have some early P4 CPU's just in case.
 
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sajunky said:
Would you like to try different CPU? I don't remember correctly, it was long time ago, kilobits might be right in this case. I have some early P4 CPU's just in case.
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I suppose I could always try adjusting the fsb or cpu clock speed and see what that does. Have not tried that yet.
 
Anybody know of a light weight windows browser?

I'm gonna install Lubuntu on the second hard drive with midori browser just to make things easier.
 
ponder said:
Anybody know of a light weight windows browser?
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IE6. With IE8 hit swapping with your memory configuration. Google takes more memory and Firefox even more.
 
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Ponder I have some old PC stuff, boards/ Hdd's/ mobile rack etc. Took some pics, where can I post them? If anyone is interested.

Found some ram,
SEC KMM366S203BTN-G0. 03/98.

I'm not computer savvy so don't ask me what it is!
 
Not really, but thanks...
It is 16MB 168-pin DIM and Pentium MMX mobo. Maybe good enough for Windows 95, not Win98, not to mention XP. Even latest Linux distributions require more.
 
ponder said:
There might be some hope. Lady works half day for a doctor and apparently the office PC bombed and they got a new one, the old one is still lying there. Knowing how these scheisters operate there might be very little wrong with the old one (hoping it's a dead PSU, or maybe the new pc came with a software 'upgrade') and she's gonna ask if she can have it. Maybe I can cobble something together. She'll let me know later, crosses fingers. If this pans out then I can give the old one to my domestic worker as she's been asking, I've got a spare 17" crt to boot.
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Ok she dropped this PC off with me last night. Looks like the MB is dead, http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/510972-Acer-Extensa-E264-problems

It does however have a nice Dual Core E2180 CPU, 2GB of RAM, good PSU & nice case which will take a normal micro ATX MB.

I have another G31 board here which I think is faulty but the CPU & RAM is good, anybody wanna swap a MB for a cpu & ram?
 
ponder said:
I have another G31 board here which I think is faulty but the CPU & RAM is good, anybody wanna swap a MB for a cpu & ram?
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Unlikely, as mobo failure is common, so usually CPU becomes redundant. Also memory of this size is also wanted. :-(
 
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