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No POST when more than 3.5GB memory installed?
I have a client with an Asrock P4V88+ motherboard on a WinXP Home
machine. He had been running with 2GB of memory. He wanted to double that so I confirmed how much his board supported, 4GB with a max of 1GB per slot and ordered 4 pieces of Crucial 1GB. When all 4 chips are installed the system would not POST, however with only 3 installed it works fine. I know that there is an issue with Intel processors and 32 bit OS's only registering up to 3.5 regardless of board specs but why won't it simply POST normal and simply only register 3.5. It does not POST at all. Changing slots has no effect. I dropped one of the old 512 chips in the empty slot along with three of the 1 Gigers and it booted fine though strangely his AGP card suddenly becomes lost by Windows when the 512 chip is in. That may be simply be some sort of Windows instability due to using a mismatched chip but it does POST. Take out the 512 chip and run on 3 of the Crucial 1 Gigers only and everything returns to normal. So it seems running 4GB and the system fails to POST at all. And 3.5 works but is unstable. But any ideas why it won't even POST with 4GB? Thanks in advance, Adam |
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No POST when more than 3.5GB memory installed?
amn0270 wrote:
I have a client with an Asrock P4V88+ motherboard on a WinXP Home machine. He had been running with 2GB of memory. He wanted to double that so I confirmed how much his board supported, 4GB with a max of 1GB per slot and ordered 4 pieces of Crucial 1GB. When all 4 chips are installed the system would not POST, however with only 3 installed it works fine. I know that there is an issue with Intel processors and 32 bit OS's only registering up to 3.5 regardless of board specs but why won't it simply POST normal and simply only register 3.5. It does not POST at all. Changing slots has no effect. I dropped one of the old 512 chips in the empty slot along with three of the 1 Gigers and it booted fine though strangely his AGP card suddenly becomes lost by Windows when the 512 chip is in. That may be simply be some sort of Windows instability due to using a mismatched chip but it does POST. Take out the 512 chip and run on 3 of the Crucial 1 Gigers only and everything returns to normal. So it seems running 4GB and the system fails to POST at all. And 3.5 works but is unstable. But any ideas why it won't even POST with 4GB? Thanks in advance, Adam My guess is that with more memory load you need to tweak down the memory timings to get it stable. |
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No POST when more than 3.5GB memory installed?
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:08:20 -0700, amn0270 put
finger to keyboard and composed: I have a client with an Asrock P4V88+ motherboard on a WinXP Home machine. He had been running with 2GB of memory. He wanted to double that so I confirmed how much his board supported, 4GB with a max of 1GB per slot and ordered 4 pieces of Crucial 1GB. When all 4 chips are installed the system would not POST, however with only 3 installed it works fine. I know that there is an issue with Intel processors and 32 bit OS's only registering up to 3.5 regardless of board specs but why won't it simply POST normal and simply only register 3.5. It does not POST at all. Changing slots has no effect. I dropped one of the old 512 chips in the empty slot along with three of the 1 Gigers and it booted fine though strangely his AGP card suddenly becomes lost by Windows when the 512 chip is in. That may be simply be some sort of Windows instability due to using a mismatched chip but it does POST. Take out the 512 chip and run on 3 of the Crucial 1 Gigers only and everything returns to normal. So it seems running 4GB and the system fails to POST at all. And 3.5 works but is unstable. But any ideas why it won't even POST with 4GB? Thanks in advance, Adam Go to Device Manager and view the memory resources. You may find that the AGP card is competing for address space at C0000000 and above. See if you can manually assign a different address range for the card, eg somewhere above E0000000 (= 3.5GB). - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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No POST when more than 3.5GB memory installed?
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:08:20 -0700, amn0270
wrote: I have a client with an Asrock P4V88+ motherboard on a WinXP Home machine. Umm, I know this probably sounds stupid but have you asked Asrock support? -- A Lost Angel, fallen from heaven Lost in dreams, Lost in aspirations, Lost to the world, Lost to myself |
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