MS-7125 Neo4 Platinum DIMM slot problems

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Hi everyone--

Guess this is the replacement for the boards MSI used to host? I got
tons of good help there when I purchased my first MSI board two years
ago.

Anyway, I recently assembled a new system, as follows:
MSI-7125 K8N Neo4 Platinum
AMD64 3500+ Venice
4x 256MB Crucial PC3200 DDR
XFX PCIe Geforce 6800GT
2x Seagate SATA Barracuda 7200.7 120GB, no RAID
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 PCI
Antec Neopower 480 PSU
Stock cooling, no overclocking

I've had loads of trouble, but gradually my troubleshooting has pointed
to the strong likelihood that DIMM slots 3, 4, or both are defective.
Basically, I've found that in apps that consume lots of physical
memory, full system crashes are a near-certainty when I have all 4 DIMM
slots filled with my Crucial RAM. Stability is MUCH better, in fact
just about as rock-solid as things get, when I only have slots 1 and 2
filled.

Windows stability is fine regardless of what slots I have filled. I
really only see it during Half-life 2, Dawn of War, etc., when I've got
all the settings maxed. With HL2 in particular, I ran it windowed for
awhile so I could keep an eye on the Performance tab of the Task
Manager-- prior to a crash that happened every time I tried to load a
new stage, physical memory usage would, after remaining constant around
400MB, suddenly start climbing all the way to 1024MB, and then, boom,
crash. Once I pulled the RAM out of 3 and 4, I got through the load
just fine.

MSI says not to use 3 DIMMs on this board, so I really can't pinpoint
the problem slot by swapping DIMMs in and out. Crucial was kind of
enough to send me two replacement DIMMs when I first figured out how to
fix the stability problem by pulling out two DIMMs, because at the time
I blamed the RAM itself.

Does anyone have any ideas? Are there any tools, etc that can test
DIMM slots? Should I just have Newegg send me a new board? FYI, I ran
Docmem from simmtester.com all night with the 4 Crucial DIMMs installed
and woke up to no errors, so I'm really perplexed. Thanks in advance.
 
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OK, thank you much! I had no luck finding MSI's forums from their
page. When I finally googled to a link, it twas dead. Odd.
 
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On 28 Jul 2005 07:42:42 -0700, "Ryan Norton" <ryannorton@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi everyone--

Hi
>
>Guess this is the replacement for the boards MSI used to host? I got
>tons of good help there when I purchased my first MSI board two years
>ago.

MSI still has forums.
The board for Athlon64 nVidia based boards is here:

http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?board=28.0

And there is still tons of good help to get there.

--
Jens G
IP telefoni med www.musimi.dk - slet ikke så svært
 
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Funny you mentioned hl2,i had this too 1 time last week.
I was running several apps at the same time and some internet activity,and
decided to play a round of hl2.
After some scene loading and progress all of a sudden the load screen for a
new scene freezed and kicked me back to desktop with some memory message.
Strange to have out of ram message with 1Gb.
But then i noticed i had the windows swapfile at low settings,so i changed
that back to windows managed and since the game runs fine.
Apparently you get around 1Gb of use in the total memory usage screen from
task manager when playing this game.
Imo it's best not to have a big swapfile but to force windows to run a game
in physical memory,however i now have it set at 512mb for min and max,and so
far it goes well.

MSI K8N neo4 Platinum (non sli)
Amd64 xp3800 venice core 2.4Ghz
Sapphire Radeon x850pro cat.5.7 core 520mhz. mem 1200mhz.
SB live 5.1 + 56k pci modem v92 trust
Asus dvd player + Aopen 8x8 dvd writer
Nec floppy drive + maxtor200Gb 8mb/7200rpm HD.
Philips Brilliance 109P4 monitor
Coolermaster 531 with 2 120mm case fans + realpower450w.
Windows xp pro+sp1


"Ryan Norton" <ryannorton@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> OK, thank you much! I had no luck finding MSI's forums from their
> page. When I finally googled to a link, it twas dead. Odd.
>