[Scgeeks] Re: RESOLVED Re: RAM voltages

[Indigo]

"Twayne" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message 
news:g849cg$tlv$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>   BTW, if you're interested, their RAM investigator is a downloadable app; 
> I grabbed it for future reference; you don't HAVE to do it online.


I've had the standalone shareware version SIW for a long time on my various 
machines, lots of great info available. SiSandra is another good one. Both 
have limitations on some of their apps unless you pay up, but for what I 
want to look at they work fine.


> _Aside:_  Just for grins, since the BIOS allowed it, I tried increasing 
> the FSB speed to the next setting to see what happened.  What happened 
> was, I had to look for the BIOS erase jumper to get booted again!<G>  It 
> wasn't labeled, either; had to guess by its location on the mobo. Then I 
> noticed the label: It's UNDER the header base!  Duhhh!
>

Double Doh! You got _really_ lucky there, you know that, right?

>
> It's been an "interesting" exercise if nothing else.  I've got it fully 
> rebuilt now and it's actually not too bad.  Pauses from anything that 
> causes a massive prefetch reorg are a little annoying, but all are less 
> than 10 seconds at least,

Do you know what apps cause the "prefetch" slowdown? I know absolutely 
nothing about prefetching, guess it's time to gargle it. I occasionally have 
"stuttering" sound card issue, sometimes when CPU usage is high, sometimes 
not, so I know it's something else causing the problem. In another thread, I 
said that I've fixed all of my soundcard issues except for that one. I 
discovered that the irritating crackling noise while listening to streaming 
XM audio was not being caused by my PC, because I heard the same damn 
crackling noise emanating from my XM car stereo while driving today! Must be 
sun spots or sumpthin.....