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- Jan 13, 2001
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- Minneapolis, MN
OK. Haven't been around in a while but I'll give this a shot an appreciate any help. I'm way out of the loop.
I have a K8V SE Deluxe MB w/ the Newcastle A64 3200+ chip I got from the AMD promotion way back when. Has been humming along swimmingly since day 1 with 2x 512mb Corsair Value RAM PC3200 memory. On Monday I swapped those out for 2x brand new Corsair 1GB PC3200 along with 1x Corsair 1GB PC3200 (all Value RAM). Linux won't boot, and Windows (XP Pro) is pretty unstable. So I pull the old used stick out of DIMM1, leaving the new stuff in DIMM2 and DIMM3 and ba-da-bing, Linux likes me all of a sudden. I notice in the manual that it says something about memory configurations - if you insert 3 double sided DIMMs, the fastest memory speed you can run at is DDR200. Ack. That would jive with what memtest86 was telling me, though - that my RAM was running at DDR200 speed. So the chart says that the only way I can get away with running DDR400/PC3200 speeds is if I stick the 2 double sided DIMMs in slots 1 and 3.
This Sucks. I have 3GB of memory here sitting in front of me that I (apparently) cannot use.
Has anyone else hit this issue? I'm assuming these 1 GB memory sticks are double-sided - is that true? If it's not, why won't Linux boot for me? (or, better yet, why won't it boot at all with 3 GB of memory installed and Windows will?)
I have a K8V SE Deluxe MB w/ the Newcastle A64 3200+ chip I got from the AMD promotion way back when. Has been humming along swimmingly since day 1 with 2x 512mb Corsair Value RAM PC3200 memory. On Monday I swapped those out for 2x brand new Corsair 1GB PC3200 along with 1x Corsair 1GB PC3200 (all Value RAM). Linux won't boot, and Windows (XP Pro) is pretty unstable. So I pull the old used stick out of DIMM1, leaving the new stuff in DIMM2 and DIMM3 and ba-da-bing, Linux likes me all of a sudden. I notice in the manual that it says something about memory configurations - if you insert 3 double sided DIMMs, the fastest memory speed you can run at is DDR200. Ack. That would jive with what memtest86 was telling me, though - that my RAM was running at DDR200 speed. So the chart says that the only way I can get away with running DDR400/PC3200 speeds is if I stick the 2 double sided DIMMs in slots 1 and 3.
This Sucks. I have 3GB of memory here sitting in front of me that I (apparently) cannot use.
Has anyone else hit this issue? I'm assuming these 1 GB memory sticks are double-sided - is that true? If it's not, why won't Linux boot for me? (or, better yet, why won't it boot at all with 3 GB of memory installed and Windows will?)
