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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.
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.