Interesting hardware problem

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:59 +0800, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> Motherboard: CUBX
> CPU: P3-700MHz
> 
> If I overclocked the CPU to 933MHz, BIOS reported 384M RAM.
> If I didn't overclock, BIOS reported 512M RAM.
> 
> WHY?
> 

Ah, Chang, what is it with Hong Kongers and overclocking ? (just
kidding! No flames about Singaporeans, please, we're sensitive!) ;)

The only time I tried overclocking was with the Abit Dual Celeron board
many years ago. I experienced the same problems as yourself, and also
unexplained reboots and hangs. It turns out that it had something to do
with the motherboard design itself, with one capacitor on the board that
was not rated high enough, IIRC. You should probably check if other
board users are experiencing similar problems, and if there are any
work-arounds.


-- 
Pascal Chong
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