Instability with K6 Delta and XP

[Guest]

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I've got an Athlon XP 2000+, with the FSB Clock set to 133 in the BIOS, and
the clock for my DDR400 mem set to AUTO. The PATA HD is connected on the
same channel as my CDRW with a SATA 133 cable. The motherboard came with
Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire and SATA. Th power-supply is 300W. Curiously,
when I set the system up without an OS installed, the MB beeped
continuously, and I put this down to the fact that the hard drive wasn't
formatted. The beeping stopped when I set the CDROM as bootable and put the
Windows XP CDROM in the drive.

I installed Windows XP with no problems. However. When I leave XP running,
it's stable. But within 15 minutes when I start to open folders, close the
wondows warning boxes such as "You Don't have an antivirus running" etc, the
whole system freezes and I have to switch off by holding the button in for 2
secs, rather than giving it a jab. Also, it sometimes resets itself 3 times
in a row.

How can I pinpoint the problem? Surely there must be a log file which says
exactly wht the problem is.

Thanks.
Fellow

 

[Dino]

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try running the memory in sync with the CPU...that is 100%...running the FSB
at different speeds then the CPU can cause some instability.

 

[Guest]

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"dino" <whyme@help.com> wrote in message
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> try running the memory in sync with the CPU...that is 100%...running the
FSB
> at different speeds then the CPU can cause some instability.
>
You mean set the mem freq manually to 133 rather than auto? Doesn't the CPU
and memory run off the same FSB clock or do they use different clock
multipliers?

 

[Guest]

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fellow wrote:
> "dino" <whyme@help.com> wrote in message
> news:jxzdd.53615$JG5.670732@news20.bellglobal.com...
>> try running the memory in sync with the CPU...that is 100%...running
>> the FSB at different speeds then the CPU can cause some instability.
>>
> You mean set the mem freq manually to 133 rather than auto? Doesn't
> the CPU and memory run off the same FSB clock or do they use
> different clock multipliers?

Running "in sync" doesn't apply to the KT6. That's an NF2 issue. Just from
reading what you posted I'm guessing the problem lies with either cheap
memory or a cheap-o power supply.

 

[Dino]

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my mistake...haven't played much with the KT6's yet

 

[Guest]

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"dino" <whyme@help.com> wrote in message
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> my mistake...haven't played much with the KT6's yet
>
>
I had a instability problem which looked like a graphics problem, but when I
changed the memory setting from the fastest one to the slowest one
everything was fine. And has been ever since. There a 3 different memory
settings - I think Fast, Ultra and Turbo, or suchlike. I don't claim to
know anything about it, but I do have a KT6 Delta and it must be worth a
try...