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PC Troubleshooting...
E_Look:
Ah, so!
Just wondering, why is the FSB doubled and why is there a multiplier? I'm sure if I spent four hours on the 'Net, I'll find out, but that doesn't look so inviting...
Sirgod:
IIRC, I believe It deals with the Voltage of the Processor and MB talking to each other. Someone may be along to correct me though.
Stephen
Death_Merchant:
--- Quote from: E_Look on May 11, 2005, 04:48:31 pm ---A computer this morning won't boot and gives a repeating series of 3 beeps. It is an AMD on a MSI mobo.
What does 3 beeps mean?
--- End quote ---
Beep 1: "Buy"
Beep 2: "a"
Beep 3: "Mac"
Listen to it over and over E, you'll start to hear it....
DM The-Mac-Wiseguy
E_Look:
Ay ya. The only Mac I can get into has special sauce, lettuce, cheese, onions, pickles on a sesame seed bun.
E_Look the still hungry
Seriously, I've used other people's Macs, but never really liked them all that much; I think it's just the way each type is used, or how the designers and marketers intended them to be used.
As to the other thing, since this PC is a gift for my younger one, I've got to wait until he zonks for the night before I can pull it out and change the FSB setting... I think it's rather cool- blue basic Raidmax box with side window, I switched the fans that came with it on the side panel to two glowy blue LED Cooler Masters, and the MGE 400 W ps (unbeknownst to me until I actually took it out of the box to install!) has a blue LED fan, internally AND externally.
I built a similar one for my older one, but in green. We dubbed it "The Borg Cube" since it was this green glowy box. I suppose we can call this one "Ent-D" or some such nonsense! Hey, they fight all the time anyway.
To all: forgive this OT post in an OT thread in an OT forum. I'd love for this thread to remain a tech help line for us folks on these boards. So far everyone here has come through for me.
Nemesis:
--- Quote from: E_Look on May 13, 2005, 10:38:15 am ---Ah, so!
Just wondering, why is the FSB doubled and why is there a multiplier? I'm sure if I spent four hours on the 'Net, I'll find out, but that doesn't look so inviting...
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DDR memory. DDR = Double Data Rate. Your 333 FSB is really half that but functions as if it is 333 because the DDR RAM can be accessed twice each clock cycle.
The speed problem you are having is because most if not all chipsets for Athlons will in the event of a major crash will default to the slowest memory speed. You then need to reset it in the BIOS back to the full speed, in this case to 166. It will also do that if you change the processor. Since this is the initial construction of the machine it defaults to the slowest speed until you tell it what speed you actually use.
Since you just assembled the system you should go through the Motherboard manual and set all the options to your requirements. If you are not using the old serial and parrallel ports for example you may wish to disble them in the BIOS to allow the IRQs (which are relatively high priorty IRQs) to be used for more important devices that would otherwise be forced to lower priority IRQs.
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