Posts by wazoo42

I took out the original 2 dimms of ddr333 and put in 2x1GB of corsair value select ddr400 (vs1gsds400). I think they are 3-3-3-8, but I am not sure (they definitely have a cas of 3. The bios is s3a17.

I just tried VLOS 1.1 for amd64 and it croaked horribly. The gui install dies when it tries to start x for the first time, and the text dies when I go to start installing the packages. It got to 11% of / had been formatted and then it...

Unfortunately the bios is as sparse as I have seen. It sees all 2GB, but it has nothing about speeds. I wonder if it will take a bios update to get this working b/c, like you said, the memory should work at 200MHz.

ddr400 works as ddr333.

Here are my sciencemark membench scores for ddr333: 4 cycles / 2ns 4byte 15 cycles / 7.5ns 16 60 cycles / 30ns 64 114 cycles / 57ns 256 119 cycles / 59ns 512 The compiler score is 1046.86MB/s (the other 3 initial tests...

I plan to put Vidalinux (gentoo) on mine, so I will let you know as soon as possible.

When I put in the system cd and say I want to restore to manufacturer defaults it tells me to put in the recovery cd. I do, and then it freezes. Any ideas? I want to get rid of the recovery partition and make two smaller windows...

I plan to find out today, I just received mine.

I agree with nis, I'd rather be poorer and get exactly what I want than have more money and a laptop I wasn't thrilled with.

Thanks goeat, that's good news for sure.