Thursday, February 26, 2004

A7N8X and GeiL DDR Memory

I've been getting a lot of random reboots lately, so it looks like the Asus BIOS 1007 didn't completely solve my problem. (It's better then it was.)

So... for my next trick, I went into the memory settings in the BIOS and changed from CL 2 to CL 2.5. I still expect that I'm going to have to buy new memory (probably Kingston), but since cash is tight at the moment I'm trying other avenues first. (Yes, I know some would say that this should've been an obvious idea that I should've tried 10 months ago...)

The downside of all this is that I can't use the AthlonXP 2600+ box to do any intensive VDub or TMPGEnc work. TMPGEnc seems to be very sensitive and throws errors often, VDub seems to be a bit more forgiving. Of course, when you bomb out near the end of a 4hour conversion, it's rather frustrating. It also means that since I only have my P4 1.4Ghz laptop CPU to work with, that I'm currently running behind on my conversion queue (I have a 2hour clip that is taking 20 hours to filter in VDub). The Athlon box is around 30-50% faster then the P4 laptop, so if I can get it stable I'll do better then double my processing capacity.

(Update +20h: System has been up and running all day, encoding MPEG2 and doing VDub filtering with zero errors and zero reboots... keeping my fingers crossed.)

posted by Wuphon's at 11:46 PM