This was January of 2002 and it might have been a mobo issue. My old boss built an identical machine except his mobo had onboard raid and he had a slightly faster processor because he did his two months after I did mine. He had the same problems that I had and said that he'd never buy AMD again. He's built a lot more machines than I have and had never had this many problems.
I'm guessing it must have been mobo related sicne we both had the same problems and his just had raid added on. Not sure if I mentioned this before but I tried different brands of memory and two brands made the mobo beep when it tried to post.
Have you heard anything about certain games not working with AMD setups? I have a friend who claimed that was why he didn't use AMD and after I gave him my two AMD machines he said that some of the games wouldn't work and in the game forums other AMD users were having the same issues. I didn't bother to check it out myself and he's the only one I've ever heard of having problems with games and AMD stuff.
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I'm guessing it must have been mobo related sicne we both had the same problems and his just had raid added on. Not sure if I mentioned this before but I tried different brands of memory and two brands made the mobo beep when it tried to post.
Have you heard anything about certain games not working with AMD setups? I have a friend who claimed that was why he didn't use AMD and after I gave him my two AMD machines he said that some of the games wouldn't work and in the game forums other AMD users were having the same issues. I didn't bother to check it out myself and he's the only one I've ever heard of having problems with games and AMD stuff.