To much memory

FDUSMC · Jul 28, 2002

I just bought the Abit KX7333 and having serious memory problems. I have two sticks of Samsung PC2700 ram, one 256 and a 512. Each stick works fine individually but when I try them both together I get not enough memory errors as well as I'm not able to play any games. Is their a setting I'm missing or do I just have a bad mobo? Need to know before warranty runs out. Thanks in advance for your replies.

heyou_21 · Jul 28, 2002

if you are using win95 win98 and i think winME... they will not recognize more than 512 meg of ram.

FDUSMC · Jul 28, 2002

That explains it. Thanks.

Johnny Knoxville · Jul 29, 2002

ME sucks. that should explain it better

ninthebin · Jul 29, 2002

is that board good - cos I was looking at getting it...

FDUSMC · Jul 29, 2002

The only thing I don't like about it is the the max VCore Voltage which is 1.85v. Another thing is the temp readings I'm getting. On my old board (giga 7vrxp) I was getting full load temps (folding) 36d. On this one it reads 45d. Which scares me because my system is H20 cooled. Probally just different temperture gauge in socket. All in all no problems with the board.

ninthebin · Jul 29, 2002

funnily enough the first board I was looking at was the ga-7vrx (not the vrxp though) - but I liked the idea of an Abit mobo more...

FDUSMC · Jul 29, 2002

Good choice! I had read Toms article and rushed out and bought it. RMA'ed that sucka!

ChillPhatCat · Sep 18, 2002

Win 98 SE supports more than 512... My brother's P4 system is running '98 SE with a gig and it is all recognized.

macklin01 · Sep 18, 2002

Hmm, I had 512 installed on my wife's with ME. It seemed to be the worse
for it. When I limited it to 256MB, it seemed to improve in terms of
performance, hdd thrashing, etc. Is there a "sweet spot" for ME?
(Personally, I'd like to move her up to XP Home) -- Paul

diehrd · Sep 18, 2002

ALL 9X SYSTEMS will support more than 512 megs of ram...But in order for it to work you need to go to microsofts knowledge base and look for the article on this issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q253912

I had ME,98,98Se all using 768 megs of ram...at the time on this site it was a hot topic of debate and actually was fun with all the different people chiming in on one side or the other of ya can run 768 or no way ya can ...those where the days

macklin01 · Sep 18, 2002

I bet that 98SE really flew with 768 MB of RAM, given a proper configuration!!! -- Paul

macklin01 · Sep 18, 2002

What vcache settings did you use? Any recommendations for 512 mb? Thanks! -- Paul

Seal · Sep 18, 2002

yeah the kx7-333 absolutely rox, i got mine 2 days ago and i love it, i got it after buying it to build a friends computer, its insanely overclockable and there are lots of options for every single thing you can think of.

My (not OC'd) cpu temperature (MBM5) with my ultra cheap air cooled fan with crappy thermal grese is only 39 deg c full load! If i get a decent fan and some as3 i bet i could get it down to the low 30's full load. oh yeah and the chips a xp2200.

i bet you lot are all envious of my temperatures, but i suppose i'm cheating cos my ambient temps are only around 18deg c (i live in england and its starting to get cold agen!)

i'm getting water cooling soon too because i can cool all my chips down silently.

diehrd · Sep 19, 2002

9X operating systems will have problems with more than 512 megs of memory,there is a way around it from microsoft .

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q253912

Arkaine23 · Sep 19, 2002

KX7

There's also a bios setting to set a stronger DDR signal for both banks- bank 1 = dimm slots 1 &2, bank 2 = dim slots 3 &4. When you use say slot 1 & 2, it can help to turn the signal strentgh up. I think Abit put these options in (aside from being incredibly thoughtful) because they realized that as the board nears escape velocity, err I mean 200 FSB, accessing multiple sticks of memory without errors becomes difficult. Now if they just sold lead-lined Abit T-shirts and hats so that we're safe from what happens when our CPU's start getting to such a high frequency that they start to emit microwaves.

macklin01 · Sep 19, 2002

Hmm, well, I have my wife's HP with Celery 800 running on 512 MB of my old SDRAM. My (her) current settings (mostly running windows/office apps, no gaming):

[386 Enh]
PageBuffers=32
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
MaxPhysPage=20000
MinPagingFileSize=131072
MaxPagingFileSize=131072

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=491520
Chunksize=2048
namecache=4096
directorycache=96

How do those settings look? Thanks! -- Paul

Spec_Ops2087 · Sep 21, 2002

although I do not know much in settings...that seems to be ok....but I know NOTHING about cvache or even what it is

But to answer your earlier question, Paul....all the 9X O/S's have a sweet spot...to what I know it is 256MBs...everyone says they get the best peformance right there...and with XP it is 512MB for the sweet spot...and probably with the new OS that will come out whenever it will be 768MB...and so on and so on....

Hope this helps

Spec

macklin01 · Sep 22, 2002

Hi, Spec!

Thanks for the response. Hmm, well, I thought I had tweaked ME successfully on my wife's machine, and indeed it was pretty racy, but after a bit too much of folding w/ iexplore and norton, it turned up blue screen low memory errors. I ended up limiting it to the first 256 MB of memory in msconfig.

Too bad -- I had had so much hope!

Thanks again for the input! -- Paul

Tecumseh · Sep 22, 2002

Depending on the version of Windows, some people have been
able to use the RAM made off-limits to the OS as a high-speed
RAM Drive. This way you can use all the RAM. Check out
the Cenatek software RAM-drive. There are others.

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