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Adrian · 07-27-2004, 02:06 AM

As the title suggests I am having to run my Athlon 2800 processor at 2500. I have a Gigabyte GA 7N 400 Pro2 (Rev 2.0) motherboard with 1gb stick of memory in slot 3 as it won't work in slots 1 or 2. I think this is where the problem might lie. If I use the correct settings within the BIOS I get an unstable system as memtest86 shows some minor errors during test 5. When I drop the FSB from 166 to 150 everything is fine. Can anybody tell me why this happens? It can't be bad memory as it would be bad at any speed so if I turn down the FSB speed everything works fine. I paid for a 2800 and I want to have a 2800 not a 2500. Any advice is welcome.

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Adrian Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Newcastle, England Posts: 68 OS: XP	I have to run my Athlon 2800 at 2500 As the title suggests I am having to run my Athlon 2800 processor at 2500. I have a Gigabyte GA 7N 400 Pro2 (Rev 2.0) motherboard with 1gb stick of memory in slot 3 as it won't work in slots 1 or 2. I think this is where the problem might lie. If I use the correct settings within the BIOS I get an unstable system as memtest86 shows some minor errors during test 5. When I drop the FSB from 166 to 150 everything is fine. Can anybody tell me why this happens? It can't be bad memory as it would be bad at any speed so if I turn down the FSB speed everything works fine. I paid for a 2800 and I want to have a 2800 not a 2500. Any advice is welcome.