New RAM is not a friend of Old RAM

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 12:45 pm

I don't think of the future

Plus I just got home with a 350w, hehe. And 82nd street is hell to get through since there is this big jog-a-thon POS (why can't the guys run on a track to raise money?! Hell, why not just give the people the donations and not run at all!). So there is no way I'm takin' it back now.

Gonna install it now. If this doesn't do the trick, its really gonna suck cause I don't know if BB will take it back, heh.

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 1:18 pm

Hey wow, it didn't work.

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The new specs in BIOS show this:

3.3v - 3.33v
5v - 4.85v
12v - 12v

Don't know if that was worth the $60 I spent on a new PSU or not :-/ Well, I atleast have a 350w PSU and I can now rule that out of the question. Right now I have my ORIGINAL 256meg stick and my backup computers GeForce2 and I haven't locked with this combo yet. When I put the new RAM in, however, it does. What I'm going to try to do is put back in my 8500 and get my computer back up and running how it ORIGNALLY was before I even started this whole mess... ...which started out as a simple ram upgrade--how much crap is that!

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 3:03 pm

honestly if i was you i'd shitcan that 8k7a and get a newer board. They were good for the Tbird's but are so damn unstable with XP's. Go to amdmb.com forums and search there. There are so many threads all with the same problem with xp's. I rma'd mine with newegg 3 days before the warranty on it was up and they issued a refund. Only for what the current going rate was and not the 120 i originally paid for it.

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 3:04 pm

Well, I figure it's my motherboard now. Reason being, it runs fine with the GeForce2 but it won't run with my Radeon 8500 in it. I know the 8500 is good cuase I put it in my backup and experienced no lockups. I'm guessing the Radeon is asking for more power than the motherboard can deliver (since I know it's not my power supply cause I just bought a new 350w one!)....

This blows.....

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Gigabyte GA-7VAXP, VIA KT400 chipset 8X AGP ATX - $113 @ newegg.... good board? I'm gonna look up some reviews of it, but spec wise it looks niec. And the price ain't that bad.

Lmandrake · Post by **Lmandrake** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 3:32 pm

To the extent that it means anything, I once killed an Abit BX6 by adding another stick of ram...

good luck..

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 4:46 pm

hah....thats gotta suck. But I think I just did the same thing--that or make it worse. But for some reason the machine works perfectly fine with the GeForce2 installed.... ....I have both stick of RAM in as well. It must be a power issue somehow and since I've replaced the PSU then its got to be the motherboard. I can't think of what else it would be.........

Thanks for all the help Predator, FP.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 5:13 pm

HT the Gigabyte board is suppose to be a good one. If it was me i'd go the cheaper route and pickup a Epox 8K5A2 KT333 board or the kt333 Gigabyte. From what i've seen the Kt400 ain't really all that stacked up yet and its too new.

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 5:18 pm

Thats cool... I was lookin' at that one as well. It's about the same price at newegg and I'll have to get the RAID versoin since I'm currently running RAID now (even though I doubt I'll be able to drop the drives on a new board and they'll work)

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Just ordered the 8K5A+ from newegg @ $116. I hope it will be here by next weekend cause theres a lan party in northern Indy. It would be nice to have a <i>working</i> computer for it

Man, debit cards are evil. It's too easy to spend money

Anybody need a perfectly good 300w PSU and a partly working 8K7A+ heh

rogue · Post by **rogue** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 7:21 pm

My 8k7A randomly died, and the replacement they sent in went fubar with RAM errors. Im never buying Epox (more like small-pox) again.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 8:20 pm

My 8K3A+ has been good to me. My 8K7A was good till i found out i couldn't get an XP to work on it. That was before the bios flash to support XP's Tehn sold it and found out it still didn't work with the newest bios so it was rma'd.

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 10:58 pm

H_T: Your RAID should work. A quick glance at Epox shows a jump from a HPT370 to HPT372, which use the same drivers and the only difference is UATA133 support on the HPT372.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 12:18 am

Ya but the address in which Win2k identify's it by will be different and that is what hoses eveyrthing all up unfortunately busby. When you use a controller you cna get away with it but with onboard raid it normally don't fly like that.

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 1:30 pm

Yeah I use RAID as my primary stuff and I have had problems with things like that before. But since the HPT370 and HPT372 use the same drivers there is a possibility that it would work. The main thing should be that he won't have to worry about recreating the RAID array and have to backup the data. The array will be seen, a reinstall of Win2k might be called for though.

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 2:26 pm

Thanks

Re-installing Win2k was on my agenda anyway when I got the new board. Although Win2k could probably handle a new mobo and not freak out, I would feel more comfortable with a fresh install. I'm just hoping I don't have to re-create the array. But if what you say is true, then I might not have to--which is great considering not many of my friends have enoguh space for my ~40gig of crap!

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 8:37 pm

You would be surprised what kinda of screwed up repugnant, seemingly-absolutely-unbelievable-unconnected things ram-problem can do.

One system would reboot itself everytime the desktop video bit depth was set to > 16 colours because the mobo didn't like the ram. Swapped the ram, no problems at all. This was with a Visiontek GF2 MX400 w/ tv tuner pod on a AMD 700mhz SlotA board.