This may possibly save someone else aggro... Been having some serious issues with Kingmax PC150 on an Abit KT7A, proved it was SDRAM as generic PC133 modules totally stabilised PC's. Finally got it sorted (only two weeks later!) - issue is the Revision and part number. Thee following refers to the 128Mb part but I understand that the part number suffix is the same for all.
1. There have been reported issues with Kingmax on VIA chipsets (not just me!) but not with the PC150 parts (until now apparently which I find hard to believe).
2. Typically Windoze protection errors or page faults at startup, hard resets req to power on , spontaneous reboots, incorrect default cpu speeds in BIOS, no start at ANY FSB>130 etc.
3. There are several Revisions of the Kingmax PCB - (Rev 1, 1.1, 1.2 and unmarked), they are now producing Rev 1 again -(logical for Taiwan I suppose but there are two crucial differences - the PCB's are now single sided and the part number ends in " -683" = good, the "-883" = bad. PCB has Rev 1 screenprinted on.
4. Not sure if this applies to other mem sizes and/or Mboards.
1. There have been reported issues with Kingmax on VIA chipsets (not just me!) but not with the PC150 parts (until now apparently which I find hard to believe).
2. Typically Windoze protection errors or page faults at startup, hard resets req to power on , spontaneous reboots, incorrect default cpu speeds in BIOS, no start at ANY FSB>130 etc.
3. There are several Revisions of the Kingmax PCB - (Rev 1, 1.1, 1.2 and unmarked), they are now producing Rev 1 again -(logical for Taiwan I suppose but there are two crucial differences - the PCB's are now single sided and the part number ends in " -683" = good, the "-883" = bad. PCB has Rev 1 screenprinted on.
4. Not sure if this applies to other mem sizes and/or Mboards.
