Crucial CL2 mem

[FUBAR]

I bought a 256Mb CL2 Pc133Mhz dimm from crucial. I am running it on an Abit Kt7A mobo. The system will not boot if I set the mem timing to normal and the CL to 2. I have the mem speed at fsb+PCi clock so it is running at 133Mhz (I'm not overclocking). I have bios ww so the normal is the fastest setting. What should this memory run at and should I ask for a replacement.

 

[amdchuck]

Experiment with the different settings, it took me several days of benchmarks to decide for myself what performed the best. Normal performs like what is physically impossible, it both sucks and blows.

2X128MB Corsair (never dissapoints me) PC133@133&CL2w/Turbo being the optimum DRAM timing on my system. Four way bank interleave made a huge difference in memory performance as well.

 

[blah]

What kind of CPU do you have, be more specific in the description. If you are trying to run regular TBird at 133, there is yer answer, otherwise something different might be happening... sigh

K7 + KT7A + MX300 + VooDoo3000 =
P3 + CUSL2-C + MX300 + Asus7700 =

 

[FUBAR]

My system is:
1.1Ghz Athlon @ 11*100
Abit KT7A
256Mb Crucial mem as spec'ed above
Hercules 3D Prophet II Pro
30Gb IBM 75GXP HD
Soundblaster Live Player 1024
etc

 

[smithlc]

I have almost the same system... KT7A-RAID with two 256 CL2 from Crucial running a Duron at 700 (not overclocked).

If I set the speed to fsb+pci (133) then Win2000 blue screens in a few minutes every time.

Hmmm... even with just fsb (100), doing normal things like copying files I'm getting way too many Win2000 blue screens (PAGE_FAULT IN NON-PAGE STORAGE). I'm suspecting one or both of these 256MB chips are the problem.

Is there a memory test in the ABIT? Or some other way to test em?

-chad

 

[Guest]

For your mem tester look here...

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/util_e.html

 

[phsstpok]

<b>Turbo</b> timing for CAS 2/2/2. <b>Fast</b> timing for CAS 2/3/2.

Update BIOS to WZb01 or later for proper memory timing progressions (i.e. normal, medium, fast, turbo in order of actual speed).

 

[smithlc]

Hey well I kept getting these occasional page faults in non page area blue screens from Win2K so I decided to pull one stick (of my two 256MB Crucial PC133 8ns cl2) and see if it did better.

With one stick, Win2K would not boot. Blue screen with page fault in non-page area during boot. So I swap sticks. With the other stick, Win2K would not boot, same thing. With both sticks back in, it boots and works ok usually for many hours.

So... I'm thinking I have two 256MB sticks each with 128MB or so usuable memory or so. BTW... this is running non-overclocked anything, tried various interleave settings, and host+pci or host clock.

(Please don't tell me that Win2K can't handle reducing the amount of available memory or some such nonsense. Actually, please tell me if this is the problem).

I'm calling crucial tomorrow.

Chad

 

[smithlc]

Well hey Crucial tells me I ended up with PC100 instead of PC133 so we're doing a painless exchange. These sticks are still failing at 100 but now the chip quality is moot. BTW... excellent customer service over there at Crucial.

Also Crucial tech support says that indeed you must run Win2000 setup after changing memory config. I guess NT needs to rethink the swap file size.

Chad

 

[RocKo]

cool, thanks for info, I already ordered
2x CAS3 pc133 256ram w/ kt7a
and planning to boot win2k !!

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