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The F7 BIOS update fixed some persistent problems I was having with 3D graphics, but my memory has always run at 200MHz. The particular Kingston RAM I'm using is recommended by Kingston and seems to work fine.
- DrBob789456
- Post #435
- Jan 9, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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Absolutely! I have had some odd results with temperature readings with F7, but otherwise my system is very stable and fast. I'm a happy guy.
- DrBob789456
- Post #14
- Jan 5, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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I don't know if you have left on tour yet, but in case you're picking up these messages: F7 BIOS update fixed all my grapics problems! I have been playing Half-Life for about one and a half hours with no shut-downs or other glitches. I don't know what Gigabyte fixed, but things are now good...
- DrBob789456
- Post #427
- Jan 1, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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Well, I was at Fry's and they had a good Zalman cooler for a decent price, so I bought it and put it in. Works like a charm, my CPU never goes above 53C while running Prime95 at its highest heat generating setting. Bad news, however, is that it still shuts down after a while. In addition, I...
- DrBob789456
- Post #12
- Dec 31, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Joelslaw suggested that I run Prime95 to test for voltage and heat problems. Since I haven't tweaked the system at all I assumed that the CPU heatsink/fan that came from AMD would be adequate. I was surprised to find that the CPU temperature went from a resting state of 46C to 60C within two...
- DrBob789456
- Post #417
- Dec 30, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Well, I wouldn't have believed it, but the CPU heats up like a mother when I run Prime95. At rest, after running awhile, the CPU was at 46C. After about two minutes of running Prime95 at its most torturous setting, it was at 60C! Within an hour the system had shut down (or, at least, the...
- DrBob789456
- Post #9
- Dec 30, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Thanks. I'll give that a try, though I think it probably is either the graphics card or the AGP portion of the mobo (would that be stress-tested by Prime95?). If anything else occurs to you, let me know. BTW, I haven't oc'd or tweaked any part of my system. I would be deliriously happy at...
- DrBob789456
- Post #7
- Dec 29, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Sorry, I didn't mean to shock you. I had looked at your profile and thought it would be friendlier to address you by your first name. I don't get the message - surprisingly, since the ATI software provides for that. Nothing on the same connector as the card; the PSU has plenty of...
- DrBob789456
- Post #413
- Dec 29, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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You're right, it's worth checking. As far as temp. monitoring goes, I just have the basic utilities that came with the Mobo and graphics card. They show the information but don't log it. My board is not an ASUS board, so AsusProbe won't work. When the video stops, it's all part of the game...
- DrBob789456
- Post #5
- Dec 28, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Thanks, Michael. The settings I was referring to were all of the arcane settings associated with the graphics board GART and the BIOS, not game settings. I wouldn't have expected those to lock up the computer. After I posted, I realized that I may not have properly described the manner of the...
- DrBob789456
- Post #411
- Dec 28, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Thanks for the reply, joelslaw. I don't think that the games run long enough to build up heat; Half-Life 2 crashes within a minute of starting. The nature of the crash is mainly that the graphics card shuts down - the computer keeps running but the feed to the monitor stops. Sometimes it goes...
- DrBob789456
- Post #3
- Dec 28, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Working Socket 939 Configurations

There have been a lot of postings to this topic, so please forgive me if someone has already addressed this problem and I just missed it: I have the system shown below, with the F6 BIOS, all the latest drivers from Gigabyte and ATI and running Windows XP with SP2. The system runs just fine...
- DrBob789456
- Post #31
- Dec 28, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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There have been a lot of postings to this topic, so please forgive me if someone has already addressed this problem and I just missed it: I have the system shown below, with the F6 BIOS, all the latest drivers from Gigabyte and ATI and running Windows XP with SP2. The system runs just fine...
- DrBob789456
- Post #409
- Dec 28, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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There have been a lot of postings to this topic, so please forgive me if someone has already addressed this problem and I just missed it: I have the system shown below, with the F6 BIOS, all the latest drivers from Gigabyte and ATI and running Windows XP with SP2. The system runs just fine...
- DrBob789456
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- Dec 28, 2004
- Replies: 40
- Forum: Motherboards

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