Abit KT7A-Raid RAM problems

[Peter99]

I just installed 3 sticks of Tonicom CAS2 PC150 RAM into my Abit KT7A-Raid and I'm having stability problems. I tried each stick individually and they work fine and is stable. But when I install all 3 sticks, the system will crash. I made sure that I put in the RAM correctly and the system will still crash. I heard that filling up the RAM slots will be a problem with the KT7A, is this true? I know that having 1 or 2 slot empty will have no problems, but 3, system will cause problems almost immediately. I also lowered the timing from the supposed 7ns to 8/10ns. I left the Cas at 2.

Can anyone help me? Thanks!

 

[labooboo]

Try MD driving strengh at lo

 

[BIGGDOG]

How much total ram. Three 256 meg sticks and you will have alot of problems under win 98 95 but win 2000 you should be ok.

 

[Twinhead]

I didn't know that we can use PC150 RAM on Abit KT7A or KT7A-RAID motherboard. Is this true?

 

[Rafael]

Yes TWINHEAD, you can use either PC150 or PC160 on the KT7A or KT7A-Raid. But getting the RAM to work on 150 or 160 Mhz is another story though.
And Peter 99 have you tried to run on CAS 3?
And some ppl had problems filling up the 3 DIMM slots. I dont know what they did to solve the problem.

good luck!

Raf

 

[Twinhead]

So Rafael, how to get the PC150 or PC160 RAM to work on the KT7A motherboard?

 

[Rafael]

TWINHEAD it will work fine. It can run normaly on 133 Mhz FSB. But normaly the Abit KT7A(Raid or non-Raid) wont go any higher than 147 Mhz of FSB, some will get till 157 Mhz FSB I think. So PC150 and PC160 will work fine on the mobo, but sometimes not on the right frequency, probably under the frequency they supposed to be.

Raf

 

[RanDum72]

I have my Abit KT7A-Raid filled up with three Crucial 128mb PC133 CAS-2 memory and no probs (up to 149fsb).

 

[SirAllen]

I've also had stability problems in Win2K since I installed PC160 Tonicom memory. It's been getting worse as the days pass by. I don't want to blame the RAM straight out, I'm still trying to figure out what is causing the problem. My symptoms are BSODs maybe twice or more a day that appear to be random, and even happen when no applications are running. I also installed SP2 around the time of my RAM, and lately I installed the Via 1.32's and of course the latest BIOS, and I've added extra fans lately (maybe PS?), so I'm slowly backing everything back to see if I can isolate the cause. The problem is it may take 8 hours before I realize it's still unstable. I just got through running it at CAS 3 with the slowest timings, and well I still got a BSOD a little while ago. I also tried MD driving strengths of LO and HIGH, upping i/o and cpu voltages, and running w/ fail safe settings.

I'm using 2 256MB sticks and am currently running at 140 FSB (was also happening at 133FSB before). Everything runs great when it's not BSODing. I can push it real hard. It never locks up, just gets a save dump BSOD. I'm getting ready to pull one stick out and see if I still get them.

One way I can blue screen almost every time, is by trying to VNC into my machine. If it's the first few hours after a reboot VNC works fine, but if my machine's been running a while and I try to VNC into it I get a 0x000000050 BSOD which is related to paged memory.

Sorry I wasn't much help but maybe our problems are related and others might be able to shed some light on it.

 

[ArnoldLLerch]

Wow, I was just thinking about posting a question or two about my new Abit KT7A-Raid board. So, uh, whaddya think of them?

Abit KT7A-Raid
Duron 750 w/Orb Silver cooler
1 stick PC133 256Mb RAM
C: 30 Gig Samsung
D: 40 Gig Samsung
E: Teac CD-RW
F: BTC DVD-ROM
Diamond Speedstar A-70 AGP for Windows
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audio PCI 64V
Syslink EtherLAN PCI LANCard II
Dell P780 Monitor (Flat CRT 17" @ 1024x768)
Win98 SE (4-10-2222a) Final Edition
Zoltrix TV Decoder

Seems stable at this point but, then again, I just got it up and running for the first time. Am waiting for Mass Storage devices to appear.
and............how do I set the BIOS to run the chip faster?

 

[Twinhead]

I agree with you, Rafael.

 

[Rafael]

So I dont know if SOMETIMES it worth get PC150 or PC160 memories. I dont know about the TONICOM prices, but I saw the mushkin PC150 very expensive.
And some PC133 memory will go way over the 133 Mhz, like Mushkin and Crucial PC133 will go over the 133 Mhz. Ive seen ppl using Crucial 256 PC133 over 147 Mhz already.

Raf

 

[ArnoldLLerch]

oof