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Problem with memory at POST
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Hash: SHA1 I have a problem that I'm stumped on, and am having a hard time understanding why, and why this isn't working. First, the setup I'm trying to build: Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP-940 Motherboard Opteron 140 CPU Seagate 80G 5400RPM Western Digital 20G 5400RPM Emprex 8x DVD+/-RW/CD-RW Onstream DI-30 Tape drive Enermax EG475P-VE SFMA PSU Coolermaster KK8-7152A CPU fan 512MB Registered ECC DDR RAM (2x 256MB Kingston KVR333X72RC25/256) The problem. According to both Gigabyte and Kingston, this memory should work with this board. When I drop it onto the board and power it up, I get nothing. The Coolermaster fan and PSU try to start up, then shut down. No response from anything else. I've tried these singly, as well as in pairs, both in dual and single channel setups. Same result. Now. I took a pair of 256MB sticks as well as a 512MB stick, both which should NOT work with this board as they are Non-ECC, unregistered (2 x 256MB Kingston KVR400X64C3A/256 and 1 x 512 KVR333X64C25/512 respectively) and tried them (the 256MB sticks both singly and in pairs, and the 512MB by itself) and powered on the machine. The board started up, but then complained with long beeps (according to Gigabyte's manual, this is caused by DRAM errors (wrong memory installed)). What I'm stumped on is why the board is doing exactly what it should with the wrong memory and failing to POST, and not doing anything at ALL with the memory that should be working with it. Has anyone else had a similar problem? The registered memory was just newly purchased. BL. - -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: Unix Systems Administrator, | Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead! | http://www.sbcglobal.net/~tyketto PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569 F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBpXt1yBkZmuMZ8L8RAlbZAKDay0Q5kpP8l+WR5FDLDh zM4KvHdACeMzeK wdJJNOHHI7Vbqo4S6EFXDII= =rdbc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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"A Guy Called Tyketto" wrote in message . com... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a problem that I'm stumped on, and am having a hard time understanding why, and why this isn't working. First, the setup I'm trying to build: Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP-940 Motherboard Opteron 140 CPU Seagate 80G 5400RPM Western Digital 20G 5400RPM Emprex 8x DVD+/-RW/CD-RW Onstream DI-30 Tape drive Enermax EG475P-VE SFMA PSU Coolermaster KK8-7152A CPU fan 512MB Registered ECC DDR RAM (2x 256MB Kingston KVR333X72RC25/256) The problem. According to both Gigabyte and Kingston, this memory should work with this board. When I drop it onto the board and power it up, I get nothing. The Coolermaster fan and PSU try to start up, then shut down. No response from anything else. I've tried these singly, as well as in pairs, both in dual and single channel setups. Same result. Now. I took a pair of 256MB sticks as well as a 512MB stick, both which should NOT work with this board as they are Non-ECC, unregistered (2 x 256MB Kingston KVR400X64C3A/256 and 1 x 512 KVR333X64C25/512 respectively) and tried them (the 256MB sticks both singly and in pairs, and the 512MB by itself) and powered on the machine. The board started up, but then complained with long beeps (according to Gigabyte's manual, this is caused by DRAM errors (wrong memory installed)). What I'm stumped on is why the board is doing exactly what it should with the wrong memory and failing to POST, and not doing anything at ALL with the memory that should be working with it. Has anyone else had a similar problem? The registered memory was just newly purchased. BL. - -- my AMD3200+ and Albatron K8X800 Pro2 mobo has serious problems with pairs of memory. programs and windows act screwy, things run too fast, very weird. regards malcolm |
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