[KULUA] Re: Weird memory issue

[Kendric Beachey]

I did this and was just about to proclaim you the winner, as the
machine booted up with 8 gigs!  But then I noticed the video card was
forcing things to a lower resolution (power saving maybe?)...and when
I plugged in a couple of things that hadn't been hooked up yet
(speakers and network cable), the machine locked up.

Dang.

Well, 4 gigs is 4 times better than the 1 gig I had before.  The
computer is now comfortable to use.  Anybody wanna buy the 4 gigs I
won't be using?  I'll throw in a set of two 512 meg sticks as well.
:-)  $20 for all...they're all confirmed to work if your machine can
pump up the power.

Kendric Beachey



On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try using that screen from our post and setting the speed down to as
> low as possible (probably 533/400), set all of the counts to as high
> as possible and see if that passes....if the slowest won't work you
> likely are out of luck to get all of the memory working.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Kendric Beachey
> <kendric.beachey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, thanks for all the feedback.
>>
>> I hoped to devote some time to this over the weekend but I didn't get
>> enough time to solve it.  However, I did manage to pull some more
>> info.
>>
>> These are the memory modules in question...
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178164  (I
>> ordered two sets of two.)
>>
>> Also I've attached a photograph of the memory config page in my BIOS.
>> If you take it off of "automatic" there are two manual options.  One
>> of them just lets you make changes, while the other, called
>> "aggressive", assigns some values but lets you change them.
>>
>> I couldn't find any settings for memory voltage, but is that implicit
>> in these settings?
>>
>> I did toy around with changing some of the settings, mainly forcing it
>> to 667 MHz as that's what the memory is really supposed to be rated
>> for.  For the others I tried a few changes but not much as I didn't
>> know what was plausible.  Nothing allowed all four sticks to work at
>> once.
>>
>> If I'd had more time to spend, I'd have done better research on what
>> the settings mean, etc...sorry not to have done so yet.
>>
>> Kendric Beachey
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Kendric Beachey
>> <kendric.beachey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just got four 2GB memory modules for my computer (running on 1 GB
>>> was starting to try my patience).  These were destined for the four
>>> slots on my motherboard (Intel DG965RY).
>>>
>>> These combinations produce a happily working machine:
>>>
>>> any one DIMM in any slot
>>> any two DIMMs in any two slots
>>> any three DIMMs in any three slots
>>>
>>> This combination produces a machine that can't get as far as the BIOS
>>> power-on self test:
>>>
>>> all four DIMMs in all four slots
>>>
>>> It fires up the fans and stuff for about five seconds, then shuts off.
>>>  Then it waits about five seconds, and fires up again...and it repeats
>>> the cycle, endlessly, until I pull the plug.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this sort of thing before?  All of the DIMMs and all
>>> of the slots have been proven to work in isolation or combinations up
>>> to three...it's just when I try to use all four at once that it conks
>>> out.
>>>
>>> Kendric Beachey
>>>
>>
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