Thought I'd show the build quality of this MSI KM2M Combo before selling it
Rubycon MBZ in the VRM, with heatsink on MOSFETs
Chemicon KZE elsewhere, just three Teapo in lesser roles
I got this a while ago, used, although everything looks original including soldering for all caps
Drawback of the board is being extremely finicky about DDR
I found if any double-sided DDR was used, whether as a pair or in conjunction with a single-sided one, there would be errors from Memtest which didn't necessarily show up in the first pass
Wasted a lot of time testing memory, and other debugging - first XP build would consistently get windows\system32\config\system missing or corrupt on a cold start, even though it'd had one successful pass of Memtest, and disk etc. tested fine beforehand
Was about to try SDRAM instead (it's a dual memory board) when I stumbled across its dislike of double-sided DDR
Rubycon MBZ in the VRM, with heatsink on MOSFETs
Chemicon KZE elsewhere, just three Teapo in lesser roles
I got this a while ago, used, although everything looks original including soldering for all caps
Drawback of the board is being extremely finicky about DDR
I found if any double-sided DDR was used, whether as a pair or in conjunction with a single-sided one, there would be errors from Memtest which didn't necessarily show up in the first pass
Wasted a lot of time testing memory, and other debugging - first XP build would consistently get windows\system32\config\system missing or corrupt on a cold start, even though it'd had one successful pass of Memtest, and disk etc. tested fine beforehand
Was about to try SDRAM instead (it's a dual memory board) when I stumbled across its dislike of double-sided DDR
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