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Hi
I have a MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR (MS-6750) motherboard with an AMD Barton XP 3200+ CPU & 2 x 512Mb PC-3200 RAM.
Of late, it has started crashing with monotonous regularity. I have tried everything I can think of to identify the cause - without any success.
Today, on the off chance that it would make a difference, I decided to experiment with dropping the FSB speed from 200MHz to 166MHz. Before doing so, I ran CPU-Z to check the speeds. I happened to notice that the CPU Voltage was fluctuating between 1.60v & 1.664v. pcAlert4 shows the same thing - the other voltages are shown as 3.33v, 4.95v & 11.88v and seem rock steady. I have never noticed this fluctuation in CPU Voltage before, but haven't really looked.
Does anyone have any idea why this might happen? I am guessing that there is a problem with the VRM on the motherboard. Does anyone have any suggestions as to whether I can do anything about this?
I have a MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR (MS-6750) motherboard with an AMD Barton XP 3200+ CPU & 2 x 512Mb PC-3200 RAM.
Of late, it has started crashing with monotonous regularity. I have tried everything I can think of to identify the cause - without any success.
Today, on the off chance that it would make a difference, I decided to experiment with dropping the FSB speed from 200MHz to 166MHz. Before doing so, I ran CPU-Z to check the speeds. I happened to notice that the CPU Voltage was fluctuating between 1.60v & 1.664v. pcAlert4 shows the same thing - the other voltages are shown as 3.33v, 4.95v & 11.88v and seem rock steady. I have never noticed this fluctuation in CPU Voltage before, but haven't really looked.
Does anyone have any idea why this might happen? I am guessing that there is a problem with the VRM on the motherboard. Does anyone have any suggestions as to whether I can do anything about this?
