good puzzle

Hi All,

Got an A7N8X Deluxe running a 1600+ and 512 meg Mushkin DDR333(PC2700). Ran
rock solid for about a year. Never a quibble.

Upgraded the CPU to a retail 2800+. Now, occasionally, the system does a
hard lock. It looks like I'm always somewhat busy when it locks - lots of
processes, heavy disk I/O, etc.. Needless to say - a hard reset is very
tough on the filesystem.

I've switched back to the old 1600+ for now. I'm thinking this is a case of
the memory simply not able to function at specs. What do you think?


Roger

"Roger Tegard" <Roger_Tegard.TakeThisOut@bellsouth.org> wrote in message
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 > Hi All,
 >
 > Got an A7N8X Deluxe running a 1600+ and 512 meg Mushkin DDR333(PC2700).
Ran
 > rock solid for about a year. Never a quibble.
 >
 > Upgraded the CPU to a retail 2800+. Now, occasionally, the system does a
 > hard lock. It looks like I'm always somewhat busy when it locks - lots of
 > processes, heavy disk I/O, etc.. Needless to say - a hard reset is very
 > tough on the filesystem.
 >
 > I've switched back to the old 1600+ for now. I'm thinking this is a case
of
 > the memory simply not able to function at specs. What do you think?
 >
 >
 > Roger
 >

I think it's a weak power supply. That's what your symptom points to. It
makes sense, as your processor is drawing more current, and that's before
you add in the fact that your faster processor can cause other components to
draw current faster also, by keeping them running faster trying to keep up
with your faster CPU. -Dave<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->