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I recently purchased two 1Gb 184-pin PC2100 unbuffered DIMMs from
Crucial memory (Part No. CT12864Z265.16TD) to upgrade my Asus A7A266-E
motherboard from 512Mb RAM to the maximum 2Gb Ram (as stated on Pg 22
of MB manual). The manual also mentions it supports 2.5V 1Gb 184-pin
PC2100 unbuffered DIMM.
I have upgraded the BIOS on the motherboard from Rev 1010 to 1012
(latest release version) but I cannot get the PC to boot with both 1Gb
DIMMs in the two available DDR slots (2Gb RAM). Either one of the 1GB
DIMMs works (1GB RAM) but when I place two in the PC fails to boot
beyond the BIOS screen. The PC will also boot up with one of the 1Gb
DIMMSs in one of the slots and one of the original 256Mb DIMMs in the
other slot (1.2Gb RAM).
It completes the memory check, shows the hardware in the machine (Hard
disks, processor, memory) and then hangs. Sometimes it shows ESCD
updated successfully then hangs and sometimes it just hangs after the
BIOS screen.
I have noticed some memory problems on the newsgroups relating to this
motherboard but these either are not applicable or were fixed in later
revisions of the BIOS. I did also notice there is a DDR RAM jumper on
the motherboard to take the voltage from 2.5V to 2.6V, but it states
in the manual this stresses components more and I am reluctant to
increase the voltage as the memory is rated at 2.5V.
If anyone else has had similar issues or knows of a fix for this I
would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
I recently purchased two 1Gb 184-pin PC2100 unbuffered DIMMs from
Crucial memory (Part No. CT12864Z265.16TD) to upgrade my Asus A7A266-E
motherboard from 512Mb RAM to the maximum 2Gb Ram (as stated on Pg 22
of MB manual). The manual also mentions it supports 2.5V 1Gb 184-pin
PC2100 unbuffered DIMM.
I have upgraded the BIOS on the motherboard from Rev 1010 to 1012
(latest release version) but I cannot get the PC to boot with both 1Gb
DIMMs in the two available DDR slots (2Gb RAM). Either one of the 1GB
DIMMs works (1GB RAM) but when I place two in the PC fails to boot
beyond the BIOS screen. The PC will also boot up with one of the 1Gb
DIMMSs in one of the slots and one of the original 256Mb DIMMs in the
other slot (1.2Gb RAM).
It completes the memory check, shows the hardware in the machine (Hard
disks, processor, memory) and then hangs. Sometimes it shows ESCD
updated successfully then hangs and sometimes it just hangs after the
BIOS screen.
I have noticed some memory problems on the newsgroups relating to this
motherboard but these either are not applicable or were fixed in later
revisions of the BIOS. I did also notice there is a DDR RAM jumper on
the motherboard to take the voltage from 2.5V to 2.6V, but it states
in the manual this stresses components more and I am reluctant to
increase the voltage as the memory is rated at 2.5V.
If anyone else has had similar issues or knows of a fix for this I
would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.