say@syedmuhammad

Sick but techy

I am sick today, was getting better when the night came.

Anyway, last week my P4P800 SE was making a fuss. It refuses to post with the new 2 X 1GB RAM DDR 400 I’ve got, replacing the 2 X 256MB Kingston HyperX I suspected memory problem, so that’s why I’ve got myself those ram. But it still doesnt work. Damn. Now I’ve got 2 X 1GB and 2 X 256MB, and four of them working.

So open the VT7 (my spare motherboard) out of the box, and transfer the processor and RAM onto it. But it is not stable (That’s why it became my spare motherboard in the first place). It has something to do with the dual channel controller. I noticed that VT7 had two revisions. Mine is the unlucky revision 1.0.
Disable dual channel, and it works like a charm.

Come to think of it, I should have gotten a new motherboard (Biostar P4M900-M4) and a 2GB of DDR2 667 RAM. The 2 x 1GB DDR400 cost me around RM220, but the combo said above would have cost me RM240. I can use back the processor, but have to let go of the RAM and the graphic card. Shit why didn’t i think of that.

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