hi, i posted last week at hom my 1800+xp was crahing when running at that speed...until i put thermal compound on it...then it ran trouble free. NOw, i have just put a athlon 2600+xp processor in there, in the bios it is running at 2083MHz at a CPU External of 166/33. good i though, loaded windows, after about 5 minutes, it turned itself off, then wouldnt load windos again until i set the cpu speed to manual, and the cpu external to 163/33, now it seems to work, the temp is constant at 47, but does anyone got any ideas please.....


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In your other thread you state you have 3 sticks of RAM, all PC2100 (if I got it right). As it's best to keep RAM synced to FSB (1:1, 3:3 not AUTO/SPD) PC2100 is designed for 266FSB not the 333FSB it seems you are running (rem 333FSB is 2x166 due to DDR). Another factor is having all 3 slots filled, it can often limit the maximum FSB speed. I'd imagine these are your problems. Try using 2 sticks and using high multiplier with 266FSB (RAM synced) in order to keep PC2100 where it should be. With PC3200 & PC2700 being so cheap now it would make sense to upgrade.
Mobo manus don't make these things anywhere clear enough, and very often the English translation leaves a lot to be desired. As an example my Abit NF7-S v2.0 (arguably the best SktA mobo) in the BIOS states ...
(IIRC) Basically lower is faster but the recomendation is that you leave it set to the second slowest setting of 30us as this is deemed the safest (ie trouble-free) setting ... although it seems most people need to set the slowest speed (1ms) in order for trouble-free operation.
