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my ram won't go 333mhz on my kt333 board.

Try running 3Dmark, setting ram once at 266MHz, and the second time at 333. You should see different scores (I had ~9350 vs. 9850 when I tried this, even though WCPUID always reported 266 for the memory.) The 5% increase in speed is the benefit of PC2700 ram over PC2100. Yay..
- chillysalsa
- Post #3
- Jun 21, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Boot issues on build - HELP!

I had a similary problem: the computer would startup, and run fine. Then, if you shut down or restart, it won't come back alive... changed motherboard and works fine now. Seems like something was heating up, and preventing a restart. Check the capacitors on the mobo (the little mini...
- chillysalsa
- Post #4
- Jun 17, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Raid....How to do it.

But can anyone explain why I'm only getting Winbench 99 scores of 8 mb/sec and 20 mb/sec in it's Business & Highend HDD test? I'm running a Asus AV7333 with built-in Promise controller, and 2 IBM 60GXP (raid 0). I'm finding the speed is actually REALLY fast, but the benchmark is unusually...
- chillysalsa
- Post #8
- Jun 17, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Various Long Delays - eg: before System menu shows

Ok.. here's the deal: I just set up a computer with a new motherboard and chip: Athlon 1.33, + A-Bit KT7A. Windows XP Pro installs Ok, and seems to run except for a couple problems: When you first boot up, click control panel, and open 'System', the computer just stalls for about 40 sec...
- chillysalsa
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- Jun 17, 2002
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is 330W power supply enough?

Sounds like You'll be fine. I'm running even more stuff with a 300W. The AMD website has a whitepaper on calculating the right PSU for your system, look under recomended power supplies.
- chillysalsa
- Post #8
- Jun 10, 2002
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Disable the CD disc detection / autoplay in XP

Yeah, I set it to 'make the selection every time'. Maybe i'll try tweak thanx!
- chillysalsa
- Post #4
- Jun 7, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Disable the CD disc detection / autoplay in XP

Can someone tell me how to disable the autoplay / disc detection feature for CDROMs in WinXP? I hate having autoplay's start running, or haveing to click 'take no action' every time I put in a disc! I've already tried setting default 'take no action' for all disc types, but it still pops up or...
- chillysalsa
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- Jun 6, 2002
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Computer Building
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Volcano 7+ with 3 lug clip in the USA?

I just got one yesterday. I'm in Mississauga, Canada. Maybe canadian places will ship to you, Try: www.icct.ca www.infonec.com It came with the 3 lug clip, but it's freakin' beeatch to install. I actually switched it with a 1 lug clip because the 3 lug wouldn't seat properly (without...
- chillysalsa
- Post #4
- May 31, 2002
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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ASUS MB over reporting CPU temp?

I believe it's reading through the chip, there wasn't any thermistor that I saw... Oh well, maybe I should just leave it be.
- chillysalsa
- Post #4
- May 29, 2002
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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ASUS MB over reporting CPU temp?

OK, I'm a little surprised about the CPU/MB temps I'm reading: (Ambient 28C) Idle: 53/33 Load: 57/35 I've read rumors that Asus mobos over-report CPU temps by 5-8C, could that explain my rather high temps? specs: AMD Athlon 2000XP (no overclock) ASUS A7V333, bios v1007 Volcano 7, (doing...
- chillysalsa
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- May 29, 2002
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Cases & Cooling

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