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Soltek Nforce3 memory troubles
I added a second 512mb DDR pc4000 dimm to my Soltek Nforce3 Athlon64
system and it does not show during post or within WinXP. I have tried all combinations of the 2 memory modules and the 2 memory slots and only one of the 2 dimms will ever show up. Either dimm will work fine alone in either slot but together I can only get one to show in POST. The 2 dimms are as follows: OCZ 512mb pc4000 Rev3 and Corsair XMS4000 512mb. According to the manual the board should work with upto 2 1GB DIMMS. Any help would be appreciated. I have e-mail Soltek tech support but heard nothing yet. |
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On 28 Jan 2005 13:31:19 -0800, "Tom" wrote:
I added a second 512mb DDR pc4000 dimm to my Soltek Nforce3 Athlon64 system and it does not show during post or within WinXP. I have tried all combinations of the 2 memory modules and the 2 memory slots and only one of the 2 dimms will ever show up. Either dimm will work fine alone in either slot but together I can only get one to show in POST. The 2 dimms are as follows: OCZ 512mb pc4000 Rev3 and Corsair XMS4000 512mb. According to the manual the board should work with upto 2 1GB DIMMS. Any help would be appreciated. I have e-mail Soltek tech support but heard nothing yet. With the timing tolerances on modern memory, it's always better to stay with one particular brand and type... especially if those are double sided DIMMs, you've got the memory bus loaded up to its max. Have you tried going into BIOS Setup and turning off SPD and slowing down the timings manually?... maybe even try a slower than spec clock speed just to see if that makes it work. Are you actually using the 250MHz (DDR500) clock that the memory claims to support? I'm not sure how that impacts the Hypertransport clocking with that chipset. -- Rgds, George Macdonald |
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I am actually running the memory at 220mhz. I also have the
hypertransport set to 4x the mem bus. I have tried running them at 200mhz and have tried various manual mem timings to no avail. Both modules are double sided. I guess I'll have to order a matching dimm and hope for the best. |
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On 30 Jan 2005 06:24:49 -0800, "Tom" wrote:
I am actually running the memory at 220mhz. I also have the hypertransport set to 4x the mem bus. I have tried running them at 200mhz and have tried various manual mem timings to no avail. Both modules are double sided. I guess I'll have to order a matching dimm and hope for the best. If Soltek doesn't have a list of recommended modules, take a look at docs for similar mbrds from other mfrs, e.g. at http://www.msi.com.tw/index.htm. There are some interesting discussions here http://forum.msi.com.tw/board.php?bo...f9e1d 9ccd306 Apparently some people have found A64 mbrds picky on memory - personally I tend to go for Crucial and have never had trouble. I assume you checked for BIOS updates? -- Rgds, George Macdonald |
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