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Sometime on, or about Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:52:02 -0600, JBM scribbled:
> "Sam" <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com> wrote in message
> news:kekw67lyh30u$.1cgw3gnj20xyb$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> Sometime on, or about Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:22:43 -0600, JBM scribbled:
>>
>>> "Sam" <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com> wrote in message
>>> news:1kxmcd1s4ud6b.15v8t767kdh3p$.dlg@40tude.net...
>>>> Sometime on, or about Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:20:12 +0200, Henning
>>>> scribbled:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:01:23 -0700, Sam
>>>>> <srs2_11NOT@hotmailNOT.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>| Sometime on, or about Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:22:10 -0500, edde
> scribbled:
>>>>>>|
>>>>> -zip-
>>>>>>| I have pretty much always used Crucial RAM, and I've never had a
>>>>>>| problem due to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Same here. Also Crucial.
>>>>>
>>>>> Henning
>>>>
>>>> Although my system seems to be pretty stable and no normal programs
>>>> have crashed, I did run into one problem. Testing with Prime95 causes
>>>> an error within 3 minutes. Backing the CPU and memory back down to
>>>> 185mhz solves the problem. So, what do I do now? I want to run things
>>>> at the full 200mhz, not 185.
>>>>
>>>> Sam
>>>> --
>>>> To mail me please get rid of the BS first
>>>
>>> What BIOS are you using? My A7N8X couldn't do better that about 185
>>> until I flashed the BIOS to ver 1008 now its working at 200FSB with no
>>> problems. But I haven't run any tests like memtest86 or prime95 on it.
>>>
>>> Jim M
>>
>> I have the 1008 BIOS too. That's probably why my system appeared to be
>> stable and work at 400mhz. Memtest86 ran fine for about 2 hours.
>> However, prime95 failed miserably within 2-3 minutes every time I
>> tried.
>>
>> Sam
>> --
>> To mail me please get rid of the BS first
>
> I just tried to run prime95 and it failed
> Fatal error: Rounding was 0.5, Expected less than 0.4
> is the error I get.
>
> Jim M
That's the exact same error I got. However, since normal programs and
games seem to work fine, I've kept it running at 400mhz. But, I don't
know if I have a ticking time-bomb or not.
I wonder if this would be justification for an RMA of this board? It
was advertised as being able to run at this speed. I've written to
Asus, but no response at all.
Sam
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To mail me please get rid of the BS first