On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:28 -0500, Brian Hanks wrote: > When I got home last night, I had a chance to look into this more > thoroughly. It turns out that it was a memory related issue. When I > ran memtest I was presented with a whole host of errors. This was a > bit strange since this motherboard has been rock solid for over a > year. That's when I noticed that the motherboard was detecting the > CPU incorrectly and consequently setting the memory timing > incorrectly. It doesn't make sense to me that this just started to > happen out of the blue, but it did. > > It's an Asus A7V880. Anyone else every see anything like this? > Did you check the FSB speed setting? That usually results in incorrect CPU speeds if it is set wrong. I have seen boards that go to the failsafe speed settings when forced down with a power off, and my Athalon XP 2000+ was only seen as an Athalon 1250 when this happened. Jeff
