I'm building up a PC to use as a mame box using a friend's old parts.
It started as a Asus P5B Deluxe with an E6600 and 2GB RAM. I purchased an additional 2GB RAM and a E8400 CPU cheaply.
The RAM arrived first, I upgraded this and the E6600 + 4GB RAM ran fine. I had to turn on 'memory remapping' in BIOS (or something like that) to get the PC to see 4GB RAM (not 3).
So the E8400 arrived, I installed it and I couldn't boot into windows (various BSOD). I reinstalled the E6600 and it booted fine.
Eventually I removed two of the RAM sticks, back down to 2GB (Corsair), reinstalled the E8400 and it appears to boot fine (I haven't tested it extensively)
The RAM sticks are: 2x Corsair 1GB XMS2-6400 2x Samsung 1GB 1Rx8 PC2-6400U
So these worked fine with the E6600 but not the E8400. I see there is a bump in FSB bus speed to 1333 with the new processor. I have updated the BIOS to the latest release which definitely supports to the E8400.
So, my goal is to be able to use all the hardware I have and I haven't managed to get there.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I need to do to make this work? Do I need to limit RAM speed?
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