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Subject: Re: Dual Athlon motherboards - ASUS x Tyan 2466 x Tyan 2460

Author: Sean Mintz

Date: 14:21:53 01/24/02

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>Memory problem definetly exists. I just bought 2460. With fast memory that I had
>before motherboard worked only until running any chess engine. Than I tried a
>few another non-registered modules and with one of them motherboard was able to
>work for a few hours. But failures were stable. Yersterday I finaly found normal
>registered DDR modules and computer works stable from this moment, almost stable
>- one hanging had place, but possibly it is another problem.

you can NOT blame tyan for this. tyan very explicitly says to use registered ecc
memory. they also have a list of supported memory.

>BTW, "registered" means that memory has register that delays sendings data to
>CPU for one cycle. So Tayn company was just lazy to adapt more quicker memory to
>work with their board.

first of all, that's not tyans fault. that has to do with the amd chipset.
secondly, i found most of my programs seemed to be working better with
registered memory.



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