Trying to upgrade from 4x1GB to 4x2GB and having a ton of problems.
First of all, found TWO bad sticks in my order from newegg, which seems surprising.
But then after getting all 8gb installed and past memtest, windows server 2003 32-bit had real problems (programs would crash and not be able to restart, file explorer would chop off half the files in the folder and then it would chkdsk on restart)
I was planning to continue to run my 32-bit install on the 8gb until the SSD arrived and I installed Windows 7 64 on that. I know it wouldn't recognize more than 4 but I assumed it would at least still work.
Apparently not.
So I yanked 2 sticks to go back to 4gb and STILL had problems with programs crashing in server 2003.
Went back to my old 4x1 and everything is fine now.
But I have a few questions:
1. What the hell happened? How can the memory pass memtest yet cause problems in the OS almost immediately?
2. Am I screwed? Is there any way to get 8GB running on the board? It seems to have issues with the 2GB sticks
A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211188
Asus P5K-E
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=LCK1LS8DWojB38IJ
at BIOS 0906 which is the last to mention memory issues
First of all, found TWO bad sticks in my order from newegg, which seems surprising.
But then after getting all 8gb installed and past memtest, windows server 2003 32-bit had real problems (programs would crash and not be able to restart, file explorer would chop off half the files in the folder and then it would chkdsk on restart)
I was planning to continue to run my 32-bit install on the 8gb until the SSD arrived and I installed Windows 7 64 on that. I know it wouldn't recognize more than 4 but I assumed it would at least still work.
Apparently not.
So I yanked 2 sticks to go back to 4gb and STILL had problems with programs crashing in server 2003.
Went back to my old 4x1 and everything is fine now.
But I have a few questions:
1. What the hell happened? How can the memory pass memtest yet cause problems in the OS almost immediately?
2. Am I screwed? Is there any way to get 8GB running on the board? It seems to have issues with the 2GB sticks
A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211188
Asus P5K-E
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=LCK1LS8DWojB38IJ
at BIOS 0906 which is the last to mention memory issues
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