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I built a new Gigabyte K7 Triton / AMD Athlon XP / Corsair Twinx
system about six months ago. But I've had intermittant problems
recently. Here's what happens:
The system has started beeping. It doesn't beep all the time (in fact,
it's not beeping at all right now). When it does start, it usually
starts gradually and then the beeping builds up until it's a constant
beep every ten seconds or so. At that point, crashes are likely.
I can solve the problem temporarily by powering down and reseating the
memory. I have two 512 sticks of memory, so I have been running them
one at a time, swapping one out for the other when the beeping gets
too bad. Obviously, I can't tell any difference between the two.
I've decided that there is probably just some fault in the MB and the
solution is to swap out the MB.
My main question:
I've never actually "swapped out" a MB before. I've installed a lot of
new CPU's in new MB's but once the little lever goes down, I never
lift it up again. Are there any issues (well ... other than the
obvious compatibility issues) in removing a CPU from one MB and
installing it in another?
Thanks!!
I built a new Gigabyte K7 Triton / AMD Athlon XP / Corsair Twinx
system about six months ago. But I've had intermittant problems
recently. Here's what happens:
The system has started beeping. It doesn't beep all the time (in fact,
it's not beeping at all right now). When it does start, it usually
starts gradually and then the beeping builds up until it's a constant
beep every ten seconds or so. At that point, crashes are likely.
I can solve the problem temporarily by powering down and reseating the
memory. I have two 512 sticks of memory, so I have been running them
one at a time, swapping one out for the other when the beeping gets
too bad. Obviously, I can't tell any difference between the two.
I've decided that there is probably just some fault in the MB and the
solution is to swap out the MB.
My main question:
I've never actually "swapped out" a MB before. I've installed a lot of
new CPU's in new MB's but once the little lever goes down, I never
lift it up again. Are there any issues (well ... other than the
obvious compatibility issues) in removing a CPU from one MB and
installing it in another?
Thanks!!