8ge667 dimm problem

I've got a rock solid system with an 8ge667. It's got a 512 DDR333 dimm in
it. I attempted to add another 512 dimm (same manufacturer... Kingston,
same speed, same timings, although it doesn't look identical... there's some
capacitors in different places etc.), and now my PC hangs before it even
gets through the POST.

I pulled the new RAM out, and it boots fine again. I swap the new and old
DIMMs, so just the new one is in, and it boots fine. I tried both DIMM
slots 1 and 2, and 1 and 3, neither work.

Any suggestions?

Both are dual sided, but according to the manual, that shouldn't be a
problem.

I've only got another day before I can't return the new dimm, so please
answer quickly!

"donkthemagicllama" wrote in message
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I've got a rock solid system with an 8ge667. It's got a 512 DDR333 dimm
in
it. I attempted to add another 512 dimm (same manufacturer... Kingston,
same speed, same timings, although it doesn't look identical... there's
some
capacitors in different places etc.), and now my PC hangs before it even
gets through the POST.

I pulled the new RAM out, and it boots fine again. I swap the new and old
DIMMs, so just the new one is in, and it boots fine. I tried both DIMM
slots 1 and 2, and 1 and 3, neither work.

Any suggestions?

Both are dual sided, but according to the manual, that shouldn't be a
problem.

I've only got another day before I can't return the new dimm, so please
answer quickly!


Try manually adjusting the memory frequency down one notch to 266MHz. Get
Memtest86 to test it rather than repeatedly trying to boot to Windows and
potentially corrupting the installation.

Thanks...

I tried that (mem freq to 266MHz), and a few other things in the BIOS,
nothing seemed to help.

It won't even POST, so running memtest86 (which I do normally do), is out of
the question.

I think my motherboard is defective. I've seen reports in this newsgroup
from people having the same problem with the same board. Unfortunately,
it's off warrantee now, so I think I'm out of luck.


"Alien Zord" wrote in message
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"donkthemagicllama" wrote in message
s.com...
I've got a rock solid system with an 8ge667. It's got a 512 DDR333 dimm
in
it. I attempted to add another 512 dimm (same manufacturer... Kingston,
same speed, same timings, although it doesn't look identical... there's
some
capacitors in different places etc.), and now my PC hangs before it even
gets through the POST.

I pulled the new RAM out, and it boots fine again. I swap the new and
old
DIMMs, so just the new one is in, and it boots fine. I tried both DIMM
slots 1 and 2, and 1 and 3, neither work.

Any suggestions?

Both are dual sided, but according to the manual, that shouldn't be a
problem.

I've only got another day before I can't return the new dimm, so please
answer quickly!


Try manually adjusting the memory frequency down one notch to 266MHz. Get
Memtest86 to test it rather than repeatedly trying to boot to Windows and
potentially corrupting the installation.