On 1/14/06, Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you got the Crucial stick from them, not second hand, it's very unlikely > it's bad- they test them at the factory- I've never gotten a bad stick from > them in many years of building computers. Does the Crucial stick by itself > cause the problems?
I just finished testing that out, and no, it doesn't seem to. > Have you tried changing which stick is in ram slot 1- that's the slot that > will control the memory HZ and timings. If they aren't compatible, you may > have problems. For example, if a faster pc3200 stick is in slot 1, and a > slower pc2700 stick in slot 2, you can have problems, as it will be forced to > try and run are a higher speed that it can handle. They're both pc3200, but I just rebooted with them in but reversed, so we'll see. > I assume you have reset the sticks in the slots. What about overheating? What > about checking the ram timings in the bios. My bios will let me change the FSB frequency (100, 133, 166 and 200MHz), and then sets the ram by that number. > What about the power supply? > There's a lot of things that could cause this, but if your box boots and > runs normally for a short while, them problems start occurring, I'd suspect > overheating- maybe the second stick blocks airflow to the first stick- it's > unlikely, but who knows? Maybe you moved some ribbon cables around in the > case when you added the new stick, and disrupted air flow that way. Power supply's ok, and heat doesn't seem to be an issue. Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are all ram timings on auto? > If there is a 'ram flexibility' or 'compatibilty' option, is it activated? > Are you overclocking? I'm not overclocking anything, unless setting the FSB freq to 200MHz counts, but I can't find any other ram-related settings in my bios (compatibility/flexibility or such as was mentioned earlier.) I ran memtest86, it found errors in test #5 (Block move, 64 moves, 52 of them), but I've read that tests 5 and 8 are sometimes squirrelly on Athlon systems. Is there a way to tell in which stick the error is happening? Or should I just test them each individually? I will look for other test programs, as well. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
