1 Gb Memory Samsung DDR 2700

[TheMaddog]

Hi,

I have just built a new PC. it is as follows.

Asus A7V333 MB
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
1 Gb 2700 DDR Ram (2 X 512 MB in slots 1 and 2)
60 Gb HD IDE
CD Drive
DVD ROM Drive

I am running XP Pro on this machine. Everything boots up fine but
as soon as I start a large program (MP or say Warcaft 3) I get a blue screen
or a can not read memory at address XXXXXXX message. I can get a exact
message for you tonight.
This is the weird part. I have run extensive memory check software
(Dos based) on the SIMMs and they appear to be in perfect working order. If
I remove one SIMM and run with 512 MB it runs with no problems. I can put
either SIMM in slot 1 and it will run perfectly. As soon as I add the
second SIMM back in I have the issues. The paging file is off.
Any help or suggestions welcome.

Ben Hodson

 

[jlanka]

did you update to the latest BIOS?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[TheMaddog]

Yup to 1008.

 

[bum_jcrules]

Before PooBaa rings in...

<A HREF="http://www.memtest86.com/" target="_new">Download Memtest86</A> and run it. If some of the addresses are bad it will let you know. If they are return the memory for new sticks.

Just Kidding PB... remember that week where you posted that link like 4 or 5 times?

<b>"Sometimes you can't hear me because I'm talking in parenthesis" - Steven Wright</b> :lol:

 

[TheMaddog]

Ok I have run the Dos Based Mem Check already but I will try this one tonight as well.

 

[TheMaddog]

Nope still no Luck. Ran this simm checker and it had no probelms. Tried various Bios setings with no improvement. XP opens and runs but as soon as I start anything memory intensive like a MP flile at 192kbps rate or say warcraft 3 then the sytem just dumps out and reboots. There is a guy here who I work with who just bought the same MB and is running XP. I am giving him one of my Simms to try tonight and see if he gets the same problem. If he does then maybe it's a MB issue.

 

[thefaresteast]

what is the REV number you are having? 1.00, 1.01, 1.02?
if you are using the REV 1.00 or 1.01. please change it to REV 1.02 and above.

 

[Hoolio]

As far as I know WIndows XP does not suffer from the windows 95/98 V1 problem.
i.e. Cannot address ram larger than 96Mb.

stupid microsoft

 

[pcilliterate]

Doube check the hardware, like onboard jumpers ect then get back!

 

[Reveris]

I don't know if my case is related at all but here it goes.

I'm using Asus P2B-S motherboard with only 100fsb support. My vendor said this board could handle sdram pc133, so I have it in there and never had problems.

Then after a couple months I stick another 256 Micron sdram pc133 onto the board and I kept getting system crashes since then. After I removed it the system went back to normal.

Vendor said the ram I got was defective, too bad I didn't buy it from him. There goes my $50 : (