BAD Kingmax MEM?

I finally got my new AMD64 system running. I think the problem was a
new stick of Kingmax PC3200. [512mb]

I can't get it to work in my MSI K8N-Neo FSR mobo. When I put it in
and power up, I get power to the CPU Fan, but nothing onscreen. No
boot up. If I take it out, I get the system up fine.

My old stick of Corsair Value PC3200 [512mb] works in every mem slot.
However, I can't get the Kingmax to work in any slot, with or without
the Corsair in the system. However, when I put the Kingmax into my
old Athlon XP2000 system [Shuttle AK-31 mobo] it works fine.

Is it likely that the Kingmax isn't compatible with the MSI board or
AMD64? I thought that it must be a bad stick, but I don't understand
why it works in the shuttle board, but not the new MSI board.

DavidinDallas wrote:
I finally got my new AMD64 system running. I think the problem was a
new stick of Kingmax PC3200. [512mb]

I can't get it to work in my MSI K8N-Neo FSR mobo. When I put it in
and power up, I get power to the CPU Fan, but nothing onscreen. No
boot up. If I take it out, I get the system up fine.

My old stick of Corsair Value PC3200 [512mb] works in every mem slot.
However, I can't get the Kingmax to work in any slot, with or without
the Corsair in the system. However, when I put the Kingmax into my
old Athlon XP2000 system [Shuttle AK-31 mobo] it works fine.

Is it likely that the Kingmax isn't compatible with the MSI board or
AMD64? I thought that it must be a bad stick, but I don't understand
why it works in the shuttle board, but not the new MSI board.

Are both systems running at 400 FSB? If so, check the memory timing in
the MB's BIOS. Some may allow changes so a different CAS memory can
run. It may be called something like "performance/stability" in the
BIOS set-up.

Virg Wall

On 21 Jan 2005 21:30:28 -0500,
lid (DavidinDallas) wrote:


Is it likely that the Kingmax isn't compatible with the MSI board or
AMD64? I thought that it must be a bad stick, but I don't understand
why it works in the shuttle board, but not the new MSI board.

Ive been reading some posts since I got a 939 AMD and Chaintech Ultra
board PCI express. Unfortunately still waiting for my graphics card,
which may take weeks to get ---its on pre-order. My system is just
sitting there.

Anyway they say memory timings can be critical sometimes to get it
running. Or it may just be one of those mem compatibility things.

In fact Im fixing a neighbors K8VE I think it was called --- the ASUS
VIA 754 socket board. Its flakey as hell and some people in the ASUS
newsgroup also had flakiness and found that if the board which has
AUTO on by default overclocks something or other. He said he manually
switching it to Standard or something instead of TURBO and all the
flakiness disappeared, Another guy in the same thread did the
samething and had good results too so Im going to try that on the
neighbors board. I saw an article at XBIT labs where Gigabyte accuses
ASUS of stealthily OCing their boards to get better test results. Im
not sure if its referring to the samething.