"John" wrote in
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Cut you losses and get another board these boards are crap and it
surprises me how Gigabyte have not been taken to task for producing
substandard products

"Mikk" wrote in message
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"Alan" wrote in message
.3...

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






Seem to have fixed the problem now. Tried using 333MHz memory, but
didn't cure the problem.

Saw http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/...AQ/FAQ_308.htm about
reseating heat sink with compound rather than transfer pad, and both
systems seem to be working fine now.

Alan

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