[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Install/Boot Blues

[Dan Carlson]

One of the features of the KT266A chipset used by the Soyo is that the
memory and CPU can run asynchronously.  There are settings in the BIOS that
give you control over this, although I don't recall exactly where they
were.  So if you have a 266 MHz FSB CPU (which runs at 133 MHz) and you
have PC2100 memory (which also runs at 133 MHz), then you can try running
the memory at 100 MHz instead (i.e. PC1600) to see if that makes the system
more stable.  I tried in and it didn't make any difference for me.  I
bought what Fry's called their top grade of memory (Mushkin), so I wasn't
surprised that it didn't make any difference.

Dan Carlson

----- Original Message -----
From: <ddaupert at csc.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:45 AM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Install/Boot Blues


> . . .
> I have one more thing to try before throwing in the towel (although I've
> been tempted to throw the
> whole pc out the window); I called Frys tech dept, and a fellow there
said
> he recognized my described
> problem, and said the fix should be to get better memory. I'll find out
> whether that's bogus in a day or so.
> . . .