Abit KG7 memory problems (maybe)

[Priit]

Hi. I bought myself another piece of 256MB DDRRAM today and installed it into my machine. Everything seemed to be OK, OS booted. I though to test out RAM with memtest86 just to make sure and DANG! it freezes on test 5. I checked that the memory was installed correctly and gave it another try: freezes on exact same spot. I took out new module: still freezes or gives thousands of errors on test 5. Replaced old module (it had been working OK over a year) with new one: still errors. Then I borrowed knowingly good DIMM from neighbour: nothing changed. I underclocked CPU (AXP 1700+) from BIOS (put it on 100Mhz FSB) and set memory timings to "auto" and CAS latenty to 2.5: test doesn't freeze machine as fast as before but still reports errors on all the memory ranges no matter how many modules I put in (I had 2 Apacer PC2100 CL2 pieces and 1 Apacer PC2700 CL3 module for testing, all of them 256Mb). Last time I ran memtest86 on my system while back when I had another CPU (1Ghz 100Mhz FSB T-bird) and video card (I think this doesn't matter) and then there was no errors (with same memory now said to be bad). PSU shouldn't be the problem, voltages are very close to ideal and doesn't fluence much (I've tested with cpuburn: no problems). Machine itself has ran without any stability problems so far. I can't figure out what I shoud do next: may memtest86 report bogus errors? Or maybe CPU or motherboard are faulty? Everything seemingy runs just fine: I tried out prime95 and it didn't report any errors over an 30 minutes. Should I care much about memtest86 at all ? (I haven't had problems with it before thought). I'm thankful of any kind of advice...

 

[Remedy]

Have you tried Clearing the CMOS before taking another run at the test? Also which BIOS are you using and which Revision of the board do you have?

 

[Priit]

I hasn't tried to clear CMOS, I thought this shouldn't matter. Board should be rev. 1.0, BIOS is 9M (2nd latest release).

 

[Priit]

Desparate bump for once. Hasn't anyone had some similar problems? Funny thing was that the memory failed at the very end of the test 5 (in 98-99%) no matter what amount of memory I put in (with 256Mb, errors started to come in ~253Mb area, with 768Mb, around 760Mb and in the next run all the memory said to be bad sometimes). Sounds like the bad motherboard? Bad thing is that it's RMA experied just few weeks ago

 

[Remedy]

I just recently sold this board(last week). So i've never seen or heard of the problems you mentioned. Although, you can try the Abit forums for help, they have skilled enthusiast who still keep this board in service.

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