problem with cpu

[endyen]

That's a good hsf. Have you tried memtest?

 

[gwyn]

i cant seem to get memtest to work.
i downloaded it to floppy the rebooted with floppy as first boot devise and it just sayes something like error on disk.

 

[endyen]

Make a new file on your hdd, and copy it to that. When you exicute it, designate the drive to load as A:\ . It will then put an auto exacute on your floppy, that when rebooted will run memtest.

 

[gwyn]

ok iv done that, how long does it run for roughly and how do i know what the problem is?

 

[gwyn]

iv managed to borrow a 512 stick of pc2700
im now running at 1900mhz 11/166 173 fsb
and my temp is at 61 C
does this sound about right. the system seems stable
i tryed at 12.5/166 but the temp went upto 68 C is this to hot?
and would i benafit from getting pc 3200?

 

[P4Man]

Let it run for a few hours to be fairly certain, it will report errors on the screen, can't miss it.

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[P4Man]

Yes, in fact you *should* have PC2700 with a Barton 2500+. I don't think (m)any AXP motherboards can their memory slower than their fsb, so you need 166 Mhz capable RAM.

Your temps also seem very high to me, is that just iddeling or running something like prime ? You have a decent HSF, I think you may not have mounted it properly.

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[gwyn]

it idles at 60
would it be worth me getting pc3200? it seems to perform slower than it did with my xp2000 and pc2100

 

[P4Man]

>it idles at 60

Thats too high, unless your bios is reporting bogus temps. Reseat the heatsink, reapply thermal grease, or let someone else do it for you if you're not comfortable with doing it yourselve.

>would it be worth me getting pc3200?

PC3200 is about the same price as PC2700, so there is not much point in getting the slower memory if you have to buy new one. But, there won't be a big, if any difference between them performance wise with your current cpu. The advantage of PC3200 is that you will probably be able to reuse the next time you upgrade.

>it seems to perform slower than it did with my xp2000 and >pc2100

Impossible really. Not running at the speeds your cpu and (future ?) memory is specced at (166 fsb, 11x multiplier). Of course, if your running your Barton at a 133 FSB because of the PC2100 memory, it could be slower than than the XP2000+. Not that a 2000+ ->2500+ is a huge upgrade either, but it definately wouldnt be slower.

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[gwyn]

ok iv pulled the hsf off cleaned it reaplied grease
now my temp is idle 27 c and i played farcry for 20 mins and it went up to 29 c sounds a little bit better LOL.
ok my settings are at 166/12.5 thats as high as my mobo will let me go. so should i up the fsb or what would be better?
how should i test my jig to make sure its stable?

 

[gwyn]

sorry i meant rig LOL

 

[endyen]

Easytune 4 should give you options on increasing the multiplier.
The prog I like for to use for checking stability is prime95, esp cause it's free. The sysoft sandra burn-in is good as well. I like to run mbm5 at the same time, just to keep an eye on temps.

 

[gwyn]

12.5 is the highest easy tune will let me go.
so whats the next step. iv got to give this pc2700 back soon so im going to have to get my own im thinking of getting pc3200, will that alow me to increas the fsb
and will it run ok with a mobile xp2500 barton?