[ale] Hardware probs(was Need Help w/Debian Sarge...)

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 16:23, Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:52:10PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Jim Seymour wrote:
> > >Asus A7N8X-X (bios is most recent)
> > >Retail boxed Athalon 2600XP (BIOS says it's a 2300)
> > >2 sticks Kingston DDR3200 512m Valueram
> > 
> > That would be 400 ram, I believe the 2600xp uses pc2700 (333).  Is your 
> > board running the ram at 400 or 333?  Also, the 2600xp is a 2300 mhz 
> > chip I believe.
> 
> The BIOS reports the memory at 200mhz single channel.  Upon booting the 
> kernel reports it at close to 400mhz. I could not locate a resource before 
> ordering the parts that indicated I couldn't use pc3200 with that 
> processor. So at this point I am totally not sure of if it is okay or 
> not. James Kinney mentioned a memory tester that worked from a boot 
> disk. I have installed all the memory testers from Debian. None of them 
> seem to offer a boot disk. James if you read this where might I find 
> that animal?
http://www.memtest86.com/

They have a CD bootable version as well.

> 
> Many Thanks Folks,
> Jim Seymour
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