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by swansondl

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I have recently purchased a new Mainboard and Processor. It will run 100 Mhz FSB or 133 Mhz. It is a DFI AK75-EC Mainboard, with a AMD Athlon XP 1800+. I bought Kingston PC 133/256 mb Ram. I set up and configured the system on 100Mhz FSB, then after debating for awhile I decided to try to reach the full potential of this new Processor.
So I opened the jumper to 133Mhz FSB the machine will go through Post and I can get into Bios and see that it is running at 133Mhz and the processor is recognized at 1533 just like it should but it will not boot to Windows. I am wondering if maybe my Ram is out of Freq. Can somebody give me some suggestions? Please?

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by bbswisher

Since your board has jumpers instead of switches there may be a jumper for your ram buss also. you might want to chek that and make sure it is 133 and not 100 mhz buss...

by crapaud ergo sum

Is it possible the ram is not in slot one, some boards are still playing that game. How far it boots can point out the problem, potentially.

I ?assume? auto detect for the hard drive is showing in bios and correctly?

Sitting here assuming many things, like compatibility of ram with board?

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by christopher

it might also be the CAS setting. most pc100 ram is faster at CAS 2 or 2.5, if your pc133(usually CAS 3) can't handle the increase it will often make it through the post but when windows starts tasking the memmory is will overload it- freeze -

this setting is in most bios's but could also be a jumper setting(as mentioned earlier)

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