Archive for December, 2006

TortoiseSVN and Windows Vista

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

I had some problems with TortoiseSVN 1.4.1 and Windows Vista Ultimate. TortoiseSVN would complain about the status cache. It got really annoying. After installing the latest nightly build, everything has been working just fine.

ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe BSOD on Windows Vista

Friday, December 29th, 2006

I recently installed Windows Vista Ultimate to see how it runs as a production and development machine. I’ve have Vista RC2 on my laptop for a while and have become accustomed to the look and new search features. My desktop only has 1 GB of RAM so I decided to upgrade after I experienced some sluggishness due to lack of RAM.

I ordered the TWINX2048-3200C2 (1 GB X 2) kit off of Newegg. After the installation, my computer BSOD’d when Vista tried to start. With much frustration I searched Google and tried to debug the problem on my own.

I eventually found a forum which had someone with a similar problem. Here are the suggested settings:

CPU Freq: 200 MHz
System Performance: User Define
Memory Frequency: 100%
Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts
Resulting Frequency: 200 MHz
Memory timings: Manual
Would results in these settings
SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T
SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T
SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T
SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T
Graphics Aperture Size is 128 MB

Source: House of Help Support Forums

UPDATE: My computer soon started to ridiculously crash. I ran Memtest86+ and found out that my RAM modules were bad, well they have been sent back to Newegg.