Help needed with STRANGE ram problem

[JM]

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I have a rev 2.0 A7N8X Deluxe board that's been running flawlessly for a
year with a 2100+ and for the past six months with two 512 meg Kingston
pc3200 dimms (KVR400x64C3A/512). A few days ago I upgraded the cpu to a
3200+, and I've been having stability problems ever since.
It all seems to be related to the RAM

 

[Paul]

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In article <I4SDd.206020$Np3.8676236@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>, "JM"
<jmsn@ns.ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I have a rev 2.0 A7N8X Deluxe board that's been running flawlessly for a
> year with a 2100+ and for the past six months with two 512 meg Kingston
> pc3200 dimms (KVR400x64C3A/512). A few days ago I upgraded the cpu to a
> 3200+, and I've been having stability problems ever since.
> It all seems to be related to the RAM

What happens when you drop the clock rate for the processor,
from 200MHz to 180MHz. Does the stability improve ?

The Nforce2 is picky about RAM, and the issue tends to show up
when you run a processor that uses a 200Mhz clock (FSB400).

Here is a summary of your options:

http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=nospam-0301051512300001%40192.168.1.177&rnum=5

The nforcershq.com web site has plenty of user experiences
to read about, and that is a good place to do some searches
about RAM on the A7N8X.

Good luck,
Paul