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    Problems with new sparkle mobo

    Hi all,

    I bought the "deal of the week" Sparkle Nforce2 400 (Socket A) Motherboard from http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Other.html

    and a new stick of GeIL 512MB PC3200 Value CAS2.5 RAM to replace my old Abit KT7 and sdram

    I am running:

    ThoroughBred 2400+ XP (with akasa HSF)
    ATI radeon 9200SE
    30 gig IDE maxtor drive
    cdw/dvd LG combo drive
    4x 80mm case fans
    snd card + nic
    300 watt generic PSU

    Running my cpu at default 133x15 gives me BSOD (with error PAGED_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA) and other instability problems.

    At the moment I am running at 100x15 with massive performance hit to get stable win2k operation

    Does anyone have any information regarding this companies 1st mobo? ( www.sparkle.com.tw )

    the product is not listed on their site let alone bios upgrades

    I have no temperature readings, was gonna bump up my vcore but there is no bios/dipswitch ability for this either.

    Any ideas whether this is faulty ram (its brand new) or maybe my psu is too low?

    Appreciate any help that could be given

    mike

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    Well it is a seriously cheap motherboard so i doubt that it has many overclocking abilities such as bumping up the vcore etc.

    As opposed to the BSOD i'm not sure.

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    That sounds like a memory error to me, especially if its stable @ 100mhz - try running memtest86 from a floppy to test it.

    Apparently that board is actually made by chaintech, I've been told its this one and I have heard of people using the bios for that one to overclock it more - but it could be a tad risky, so don't blame me if it kills ur mobo
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    ta, i will check the mem when i get back tonight, do u have any extra reading regarding this chaintech issue?

    (link doesnt work for me btw)

    thnx

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    Hmm weird link worked before, anyway - its the chaintech 7NJL3 try this

    As for other reading, sorry but I can't really help there

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