a7n8x-vm/400 prob with video

[Jules Whittom]

I just bought a brand new Asus a7n8x-vm/400
I put on an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 512K 333FSB
An memory Samsung 512Mb PC3200 DDR400.

In the user guide I read:
Socket A for AMD Athlon XP 2700MHz+ processors
Unbuffered PC2700/2100 non-ECC DDR SDRAM memory

Is the AMD 2700+ would give me a better much performance?
And what's about my memory? Should I change it for a PC2700?

When I installed Windows XP Pro SP1, I had a lot of troubles. I did put my
AGP ATI card in the AGP slot and now no more problem.But I want to use the
video interface on the MB. No BIOS update on the Asus site. How to get the
best performance of my system with the integrated video?

Jules

 

[Stephen S M WONG]

Yeah, you may want to try PC2700 RAM. Somewhere in the
manual stated that the on-board VGA cannot be used with
PC3200 RAM. And I've similar experience as yours, PC3200
RAM with on-board VGA and Athlon XP 2600+ gave unstable
problems. My solution is to put in a cheap cheap US$35
Nvidia MX-440 AGP/VGA card, and everything becomes stable
like rock! I run linux (Fedora) 24x7 on it, and reboot
cycle is like 1 month (to upgrade kernel, add partition,
etc.)

My 2 cents.
Stephen Wong.