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Old July 18th 06, 11:05 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Paul
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Default PC locks w/ added memory - what next?

In article , zach
wrote:

Asrock mb with a Pentium 2.8 Northwood 800 Mhz. Radeon 9800Pro. Had 512 mb ddr
PC3200 with no probs over last couple of years. Put in another 512 and

get lots
of locking up (using any 2 of the 3 slots). Memtest showed nothing wrong

running
with both sticks, and a single 512 of either stick installed exhibited no
problems either.

Borrowed two matching 512's (Geil) thinking there may be some timing issue but
same problem.

At this point: can it be anything other than a flaky mamaboard? (ps?

weird video
card / 1 Gb memory interaction? or ?)

Thanks -

zach


On a three slot single channel memory board, try using
slot 1 and slot 3 for the two 512MB sticks.

If you still don't have stability, see if the memory
clock can be slowed down.

Test with memtest86+ (boot disk) and with Prime95
torture test (mersenne.org) in Windows, before
concluding it is fixed.

Paul