Author Topic: Ram trouble! (Read 266 times)

Octavius · « **on:** June 25, 2002, 07:57:01 PM »

argh!

I just bought a stick of 256mb PC2100 and slapped it next to my original 128 stick of PC2100 bringing th total to 384 mb. Everything runs fine, except for the occassional blue screen/fatal error I get. This has only happened while in 3D type programs such as Aces High, IL2, WWIIOL, etc... Is it possible the ram was overclocked without my knowledge? (I did no settings tweaks or anything. I slapped it in and fired up the computer) Would there be some sort of conflict with the vid card seeing that it only happens in 3D type games with a high load on the ram? I havent the slightest clue as to whats going on.

specs:

AMD Athlon 1.2g
384 ram (128mb and 256mb) PC2100
Elite Group K7S5A motherboard
Windows XP (Home edition)
GF3-Ti200 vid card
No sound card (using that crap AC97 til I shell out for a SB-Audigy)

Help?

Thanks in advance,

octavius

SKurj · « **Reply #1 on:** June 25, 2002, 08:42:45 PM »

try removin the 128 stick and see what happens

SKurj

DblTrubl · « **Reply #2 on:** June 25, 2002, 08:59:38 PM »

You might try insalling the 256mb stick in DIMM slot 1 and the 128mb in DIMM 2. That's how my mobo manual says to do it ,iirc(my board is different than yours so you might check your manual to be sure). If that doesn't help, then try each stick seperately and see if one causes the problem by itself. You may have recieved a DIMM that is defective or just doesn't like your board. I've had that happen to me before. I got a 128mb stick of PC100 a couple years ago that caused all kinds of headaches in my machine. I put it in another rig and it worked just fine. Anyway, hope this helps.

bloom25 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2002, 02:30:03 AM »

There's a free memory testing utility called "memtest" (maybe memtest 86) that you can use to test your RAM. It extracts to a floppy disk, which you then boot from. If you run the default set of tests it will probably take around an hour or so to complete. (PS. If all you see are a bunch of numbers on the screen after you boot up, that means your floppy disk is bad...

I know from experience.)