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Am Sonntag 11 Juni 2006 01:36 schrieb Tony Johnson: |
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> On Sunday 11 June 2006 08:04, Richard Lucking wrote: |
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> > I've got a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard, which had 2GB of memory, |
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> > and worked perfectly. I upgraded to 4GB, and have spent the last 24 hours |
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> > trying to get everything to work again! |
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> > |
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> > memtest86plus was running overnight, with no errors, so I assume the |
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> > memory is fine. |
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> > |
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> > The system is very unstable now, and will lock up at random intervals - |
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> > during booting, starting firefox, random points compiling kernels, etc |
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> > etc etc. |
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> |
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> I have the same motherboard. Initially I had 1Gb RAM, but when I upgraded |
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> to 2Gb I experienced the same type of problems... not so many lock-ups, but |
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> compilation of anything seemd to stop at random times with random fatal |
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> errors. Memtest was fine... everything "seemed" fine. |
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> To fix the problem, I replaced the 2Gb "no-name" RAM with 4Gb GEIL RAM, and |
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> lo-and-behold, not a single problem since... The other RAM has been |
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> relegated to a 32bit box, and there is no problems. |
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> |
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> So, maybe it is just the quality of the components that is the issue. |
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> - tony |
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I had similar problems when I was upgrading my memory. Finally it was a known |
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issue with the Winchester's memory controller. It can't handle fast timings |
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in dual channel mode, when all memory banks are filled. So I switched to a |
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slower RAM timing and all worked fine. |
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rgds |
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Bernhard |
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