- Feb 13, 2001
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Hello all,
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. I can't get any of my boxes to run more than one stick of 256Meg memmory at a time. I've tried this on 4 different motherboards. With only one stick, all is good. But, when I put in more than one, it POSTS fine, but Nortons Diagnostics and other memeory diagnostic software finds bad addresses. With just one stick, the same diagnostic software(s) don't find any problems. I have bought "good" RAM (crucial from Compuwiz) PC133, CAS 2 and just plain old Kindston, or PNY. No difference. Even "matched" sets won't work. Now, I've got 5-6 extra sticks laying around, since I kept buying more thinking it was the RAM, or compatability issues. I thougth maybe my older M/Bs couldn't handle the fast RAM, so ultimately upgraded M/B & CPU so I could take advangage of the RAM. But none will work with more than one stick at a time (All run thru the basic POST fine though). When I switch modules around, and back, the same address errors occur. I don't believe the errors are random. They are always the same error with the same modules in the same sockets, but do change if you change the sockets or modules. I've tried these under Win95, Win95OSR2, Win98SE, and now Win2000 (which, I just found out is NOT supported by Norton Utilities Diagnostics,so had to download another program, the only one I can find that works with 2000, since most require DOS to boot to). If you need the M/B name/model or the marking on the RAM, let me know, and I'll look them up (at work now). I think it is not dependent on M/B or O/S or RAM, since the same fault address occurs on different M/B with the same modules in the same socket configurations. Also, I've tried all possible configurations of RAM speed, CAS, etc, available in BIOS, and none makes any difference, at least with the Boot Memory Diagnostics results. Some Combos do cause problems booting to Windows. Also, I'm sure there really is a problem, because since put only one module in the puters, I have SIGNIFICANTLY reduced the "blue screen of death" occurances. In fact, I can't remember the last one (that I didn't cause ).
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. I can't get any of my boxes to run more than one stick of 256Meg memmory at a time. I've tried this on 4 different motherboards. With only one stick, all is good. But, when I put in more than one, it POSTS fine, but Nortons Diagnostics and other memeory diagnostic software finds bad addresses. With just one stick, the same diagnostic software(s) don't find any problems. I have bought "good" RAM (crucial from Compuwiz) PC133, CAS 2 and just plain old Kindston, or PNY. No difference. Even "matched" sets won't work. Now, I've got 5-6 extra sticks laying around, since I kept buying more thinking it was the RAM, or compatability issues. I thougth maybe my older M/Bs couldn't handle the fast RAM, so ultimately upgraded M/B & CPU so I could take advangage of the RAM. But none will work with more than one stick at a time (All run thru the basic POST fine though). When I switch modules around, and back, the same address errors occur. I don't believe the errors are random. They are always the same error with the same modules in the same sockets, but do change if you change the sockets or modules. I've tried these under Win95, Win95OSR2, Win98SE, and now Win2000 (which, I just found out is NOT supported by Norton Utilities Diagnostics,so had to download another program, the only one I can find that works with 2000, since most require DOS to boot to). If you need the M/B name/model or the marking on the RAM, let me know, and I'll look them up (at work now). I think it is not dependent on M/B or O/S or RAM, since the same fault address occurs on different M/B with the same modules in the same socket configurations. Also, I've tried all possible configurations of RAM speed, CAS, etc, available in BIOS, and none makes any difference, at least with the Boot Memory Diagnostics results. Some Combos do cause problems booting to Windows. Also, I'm sure there really is a problem, because since put only one module in the puters, I have SIGNIFICANTLY reduced the "blue screen of death" occurances. In fact, I can't remember the last one (that I didn't cause ).