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I was running some long over-due web server stats (awstats) on my home server, cranking through 1.3G of server logs last week.
I just wasn’t getting the performance I ought out of that system, and suspecting there was a configuration issue for a while now (basically since I upgraded from the P-III/500 a couple of months ago) I shut down and started playing with the FSB jumper settings.

Somehow I managed to kill the system. It won’t boot. Period. No POST, no beeps, nothing. Hard drives spin up, power supply fan blows, CPU fan spins, but that’s it. I put the FSB speed jumper back where it was, still no joy. I don’t know if I killed the mobo, the CPU, the RAM or what. Doesn’t really matter. I need all 3 for the machine to work. $150 down the tube.
Yesterday I gave up and put the old P-III mobo back into the system.
The system I killed was an Athlon 2400+ XP, 1 512MB stick of PC-2100 RAM with UDMA100 controllers.
The old mobo is a Pentium III 500mhz with 2 256MB sticks of PC-100 RAM and UDMA66 controllers.
That little P-III is cranking through the web server stats about 10x as fast as the Athlon. Something was DEFINITELY not right.