2.6.15-1.1831 Memory Issues

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:28 -0500, Brian Hanks wrote:
> When I got home last night, I had a chance to look into this more
> thoroughly.  It turns out that it was a memory related issue.  When I
> ran memtest I was presented with a whole host of errors.  This was a
> bit strange since this motherboard has been rock solid for over a
> year.  That's when I noticed that the motherboard was detecting the
> CPU incorrectly and consequently setting the memory timing
> incorrectly.  It doesn't make sense to me that this just started to
> happen out of the blue, but it did. 
> 
> It's an Asus A7V880.  Anyone else every see anything like this?
> 
Did you check the FSB speed setting?   That usually results in incorrect
CPU speeds if it is set wrong. I have seen boards that go to the
failsafe speed settings when forced down with a power off, and my
Athalon XP 2000+ was only seen as an Athalon 1250 when this happened.

Jeff