Subj : Re: Warp 4 FP15 issues..
To   : Rich Wonneberger
From : Stephen Haffly
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 06:47 am

-=> Rich Wonneberger wrote to Stephen Haffly <=-

Rich,

 RW> Is it solid with either 512MB stick??
 RW> I have seen a few Compaq's that had problems with 2 memory
 RW> sticks, (even two from other boxes).  In 2 or 3 it was the
 RW> CPU itself.  In 1 (iIrr) it was the mother board.

IIRC, the one stick had problems.  In this case, it is an AMD K6/2-450 on a DFI
motherboard.  The two memory sticks were different brands.  IIRC, the flakey
one was Centon (or something like that).  It doesn't have a brand label on it. 
It might be that the motherboard can't handle it properly, but the reason I
switched to this motherboard from a VA503+ is that I was having unexplained
problems.  When I had the same problems or worse with the DFI board, I started
looking at memory, and narrowed it down to the one stick.  My memory goofed
when I said 512Mb stick.  Actually, it was a 256Mb stick that was causing
problems, leaving me with 256Mb on my eCS box instead of 512Mb. 

 RW> It took a lot of parts swapping to figure it was the CPU.
 RW> The first one I called Compaq and let them call the m-board
 RW> as bad.  When it wasn't, they sent a CPU and that fixed it.

Since I build my own systems, there was nobody to call.  I seem to have solved
it though as performance has been good, and I haven't had any of the
unexplained lockups that I was having before.


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