Added Ram, game is worse, sound goes out.

[eskimo2]

I added a second stick of 512 DDR Ram (Crucial) to my game machine today.  Things have gone downhill.  The sound keeps going out, after 3 to 20 minutes, I get no sound or buzzing.  Frame rates do not seem any better.  

Operating System   System Model
Windows Millennium Edition (build 4.90.3000)   ECS K7AMA 1.0
Asset Tag: 0123ABC
Processor a   Main Circuit Board b
1.40 gigahertz AMD Athlon
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache   Board: ECS K7AMA 1.0
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 062710 07/15/97  
Drives   Memory Modules c,d
40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
29.06 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

CD-R/RW CW099D CD-R/RW [CD-ROM drive]
HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500 [CD-ROM drive]
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")

Generic STORAGE DEVICE [Hard drive] -- drive 255, rev 0.01
WDC WD400BB-34DEA0 [Hard drive] (40.02 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAD12822072, rev 05.03E05, SMART Status: Healthy   1024 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot '0' has 512 MB
Slot '1' has 512 MB
Slot '2' is Empty
Slot '3' is Empty
  Local Drive Volumes
     
c: (on drive 0) 40.01 GB 29.06 GB free
 
 
Controllers   Display
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)   NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 [Display adapter]
Default Monitor
ViewSonic A90f+ [Monitor] (17.7"vis, s/n 351031950334, May 2003)
Bus Adapters   Multimedia
ALi PCI to USB Open Host Controller
ALi PCI to USB Open Host Controller   ALi Audio Accelerator WDM driver
Gameport Joystick (no joystick connected)
HID-compliant game controller
HID-compliant game controller
HID-compliant game controller
Communications   Other Devices
Realtek RTL8139(A) PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
Network Card MAC Address: 00:D0:09:C6:6C:20
Network IP Address: 24.93.170.83 / 24   CH Control Manager Root Device
CH Fighterstick USB
CH Pro Pedals USB
CH Pro Throttle USB
CH Control Manager Aux1 Device
CH Control Manager Aux2 Device
CH Control Manager Device 1
CH Control Manager Device 2
CH Control Manager Device 3
HID-compliant keyboard
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
USB Disk
Generic USB Hub
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub

eskimo

[Roscoroo]

did you update the sound drivers ????

my ecs k7s5a  needs the updated drivers for the ac97 sound to work correctly.

go to the ecs usa web site

[eskimo2]

Thanks Roscoroo, but AHII ran great for 20 hours online until I added the nes RAM.  
I'm not sure if this thread belongs in Bugs or Hardware?

eskimo

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Are you sure you added the same speed of ram as the older ram you had in your system?