Hardware Question
Tom Buskey
tom at buskey.name
Thu Apr 8 10:18:00 EDT 2004
> Okay, I've asked a few people and have gotten different answers from
> just about everybody, but I figured I'd ask here.
>
> I recently got an Athlon 2000 and KM2M motherboard for my MythTV
> project. Already having SDRam I decided to stick with it. It's 100mhz
> ram.
>
> When I set the 100mhz/133mhz FSB jumper to 133mhz it seems like it boots
> (no error beeps) but I get no video either from the onboard video or
> from the AGP card I put in. If I set it to 100mzh it will boot fine, but
> my processor runs slower.
>
> I thought that the ram freq should be separate from the CPU freq, but I
> could be wrong.. that's why I asking.
>
> Ram is cheap enough, I just don't want to plunk down more money on
> something that could be broken.
I've found PC133 ram and PC100 ram are not interchangeable. If you have a
100Mhz system, you can't put PC133 ram in it.
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