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Originally Posted by Bifta
You can run the memory at 400mhz but there'd be little point as you rightly said, the FSB speed of the processor is only 333mhz so you'd see no benefit. Heat sink compound shouldn't cause you any problems as it's non conductive (electrically), if your PC does boot occasionally I'd say that the processor should be ok, it might possibly be a problem with the memory, or perhaps an FSB jumper on the motherboard that needs setting to 166mhz (most would normally come set at 133). If you set the memory and CPU FSB to 166mhz, will it boot ok every time?
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Thanks for the reply - of the two CPU FSB jumpers on the board, one is set to user mode (default) 133, rather than safe mode (100), and the other is set to 133/166, rather than 100. In the bios, the CPU FSB is set to 166, and the memory is set to auto - and is detected as running at 333. With these settings, its still the same, although when powering the system on, if it doesn't boot, resetting it, rather than turning it off and back on, seems to work ok....