Re: Chaintech CT-7NJL6 Locks up

I had a similar problem with my 7NJL6 and XP 3000 system, runnin
Viking PC3200 RAM (2 X 512). I had to slow my FSB to 133 befor
taking it back up to 200. My final stable configuration for thi
chip is 166.

Are you sure you have a Barton core and not a Thoroughbred o
Palomino? If it is a Barton running at 133, your system should repor
1529 MHz. If it is a Tbred at 133, it will report 1662, and if it i
a Palomino it will report 2128 (or 2133 by the manual).

If the system reports 2128 (2133), then your chip is running t
profile as a Palomino. If it is running at one of the other speeds
then you are indeed underclocking. In that case, look at your memor
and try to get a CAS latency of 3.

If you decide to upgrade and if you can find one, the 3000 shoul
support 2700 memory without problems

Hi Dreaming
You have concerns on cpu. I would load speedfan and monitor temps t
start and maybe even re-dope the cpu just to be sure. Remove all ol
dope and clean with a zero residue solvent. Claims are that even oi
from the skin can foul the situation. If using conductive dope, suc
as artic silver, you have to be very careful not to short any of th
leads on the chip
After re-doing mine, I dropped about 2 degrees C, not a significan
amount, but indicative that maybe I didn't get it very good the firs
time and I really need to do it again as I didn't use a solven
cleaner and spread it with my finger. So maybe I have room fo
improvement but just not seeing it as a problem yet. Since I did th
north chip simultaneously and it definitely needed doing because i
appeared the sink was dislodged after the compound dried. Since tha
requires removing the mobo to do, I'm waiting until I get a quiete
cpu fan/HS, a fan for the north, something for the south(maybe wit
fan) and a blower for the ATI 9600. Gee, that dang thing runs hot
I'm guessing there is something peculiar about mine, maybe related t
firmware/bios that ATI flashed it with. I've run the tests over a
pcpitstop several times and it is way ahead of anything else simila
whether I'm running video at 16 or 32 bit. This doesn't make sense
The 9600 came in 4 flavors, mine is supposedly the 2nd level up, bu
always reports in utilities as being the Pro. Not overclocked
BTW, I suspect that production may have been sloppy on doping chip
when heat wasn't near the problem or maybe trying to conserve on dop
and maybe they haven't gotten the word to all personel to not skimp o
the dope with these newer hotter chips. This 9600 had only about 1/
the chip covered with dope. At this point of discovery I pulled th
card from my older machine running an MX2, which never seemed
problem in relation to video, but also found only about half the chi
had dope. And usually the HS would get barely warm to the touch.
note your 5500, but have no idea to its heat situation. I've note
the 9600 puts a lot of heat in the area of the north chip. Als
leaving the bios at the default of PCI doesn't seem to effec
anything

On your 2 drive situation, does using one pata and one sata have an
special jumpering requirements. Normally you have to set jumper
accordingly for pata drives, unless running all pata in cable select
which I understood this board could do. Maybe that is necessary whe
running a combination of sata/pata? RAID didn't default to on di
it

Good luck

Dreaming
I wonder if you would see much gain by moving to another cpu if yo
are running a Barton. (512k cache). To see any big move, still no
likely a tremendous boost, you'd need to go to 400FSB which mean
only a 3000 or 3200 Barton and hard to find, unless, as I, a
thinking of getting one of the 2900's like Guy has, but he'd kno
best how it compares to a 3000 333FSB. He hasn't seen the boost
anticipated he would get by coupling with 400FSB RAM I thought h
would. Need to ask him how that worked out and wha
testing(utilities) he did