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Jun 30^th, 2005 at 6:01pm

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..... got hold of some more pc2100 ram like I aready have .... the system says its there but when I try fs9, or any other game, after a few secs the whole pc crashes and re-boots ..... what have I done .... or not done?

AMD XP2000+ : Gigabyte GA-7VA 8xAGP : Asus 9600XT 128MB (Omega _2496c driver) : 512 MB RAM : 80 Gig Seagate 7200 : XP Pro

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Reply #1 - Jul 1^st, 2005 at 9:37am

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The ram just snaps in, kinda hard to do it wrong.

The fact that it boots up and reads the ram means it is installed correctly.

Maybe it's a bad stick that fails under load ?

I'll just refer you to the info and specification I listed in your other thread regarding your choice of RAM.

I only hope you didn't PAY for the PC2100.

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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Reply #2 - Jul 1^st, 2005 at 10:07am

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.... no it was from a mate, and I'm going to pop it out and try it without this evening, and I supose that I might of disturbed something to do with the graphics card or other wires as I fitted it under the desk .... lazy boy! .... it was the realisation that ram was relatively cheap after him giving this away that is leading me to the cpu upgrade.

AMD XP2000+ : Gigabyte GA-7VA 8xAGP : Asus 9600XT 128MB (Omega _2496c driver) : 512 MB RAM : 80 Gig Seagate 7200 : XP Pro

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Reply #3 - Jul 2^nd, 2005 at 8:04pm

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You can test the RAM with either Memtest86 or Windows Memory Diagnostic. Either test will detect errors -- which would indicate a bad stick. 1 error detected means a defective stick. Test each stick one at a time.

Memtest86: http://www.memtest86.com/
Win Mem Diagnostic: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp#top

Also check your RAM timings and compatibility. RAM timings need to be set for the slowest stick. Compatiblity relates to what your motherboard will accept. Some motherboards will only work with certain brands and not others. Inquire with the manufacturer for compatible RAM modules

If you dislodged the AGP card when installing, then your PC would not display or boot, so that's probably not an issue. But, it wouldn't hurt to pull and reseat everything in their slots to test.

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Reply #4 - Jul 5^th, 2005 at 2:27am

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.... well I got the tester downloaded, took all the ram out put the new 512 pc2100 ddr266 stick in slot 1 and did the test? ... no problems, fired up the pc and fs9 was fine ..... added the two 256 pc2100 ddr266 sticks in slots 2 & 3, run the test again .... no problems? .... fired up the pc again and everthing is ok ? ? fs9 performing flawlessly, good fps with sliders well up

..... I hate things like that ! .... but thanks for the help anyway .... just wait till I change the cpu and go to pc2700 memory and need to flash the bios ! Cheesy

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