"Alan" wrote in message
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I've tried searching the group for an answer to this, but with no luck.

Can 400MHz DDRs be used with the GA-7VA board or not?

I've just built two identical systems with the above board, 512Mb 400MHz
DDR, AMD Athlon XP2600+ and Asus 64Mb Geforce 4 MX440 card.

Both machines insist on rebooting at random intervals, whether or not the
machine is being used.

The manual infers that only 333MHz memory can be used. Does that mean
using 400MHz is likely to be the cause of this instability?


Just replaced my 1800+ with a 2600+ on a GA-7VAX board, the new Arctic
Cooling heatsink/fan
seems to be doing the job, although it's running 5 degrees hotter than my
old 1800+ did.

Only had it running a day or so and it crashes randomly too - about 3 times
now
Maybe the 2600+ quality control manager had a day off?
Running 333MHz memory on mine btw