My K7S5A doesn't like my ram!

[Vyle]

I've got a 1 Gig Tbird on a K7S5A with 256MB PNY PC133 in one DIMM slot (the right one). Whatever I put in the left slot causes lockups. I've used three different brands of ram in the left one and within minutes, my screen is frozen. Anyone have any ideas? The system runs great as it is. It's never once locked up. Put ram in that left slot and deep freeze. What gives? Actually, the 256 is enough for me but it just galls me that there's an empty slot sitting there.....

 

[Moonbeam]

You can try here, or at any if the local threads on this board in the hardware, but particularly the motherboard forun. Search for K7S5A etc.

 

[CZroe]

My friend is having similar problems with a stick of PC100 in that same board. I'll tell him to swap slots and see what it does. Also, I was reading in the MSI nForce board's manual & there are aparently 2 kinds of DIMMs: 1B & 2B or something like that and only two of it's three slots can take it (Odd the tha middle slot is the one that can't). That may be DDR or density related though.