Abit NF7-s2g Question about memory

[johnnymobo]

I have two sticks of valueselect corsair 512MB 333 RAM. I am putting it on the board, seated properly, from DIMM3 - DIMM1. If I put a stick in just DIMM3, the system boots. If I put one in DIMM3 and DIMM2, the system powers up, does nothing. No beep, no POST, no nothing, just spinning fans. It doesn't matter which memory module I use. If one of them is in DIMM2, the system breaks. Originally, when installing XP (yesterday), I had sticks in DIMM3 and DIMM1 and xp setup would try and load. When it got to the copy file part, it loaded about three files and died with a memory error. When I only use DIMM3, there are no problems.

I have everything set on optimal. I am not an OClocker, but I saw the memory settings where 7,3,3,2.5.

Bad motherboard? The memory appears to work fine, as long as it is in DIMM3. Thanks.

 

[joelslaw]

usually this is a feature of mobos that will alow you to boot and run long enough to flash the bios, then you are supposed to put all the dims in and boot normaly. You might try flashing the bios, but if after that it still doesn't work, I would think that your ram is incompatable with that mobo.

 

[Peter]

Does it still "appear to work fine" if you run memtest on it? www.memtest.org

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: johnnymobo
I have two sticks of valueselect corsair 512MB 333 RAM. I am putting it on the board, seated properly, from DIMM3 - DIMM1. If I put a stick in just DIMM3, the system boots. If I put one in DIMM3 and DIMM2, the system powers up, does nothing. No beep, no POST, no nothing, just spinning fans. It doesn't matter which memory module I use. If one of them is in DIMM2, the system breaks. Originally, when installing XP (yesterday), I had sticks in DIMM3 and DIMM1 and xp setup would try and load. When it got to the copy file part, it loaded about three files and died with a memory error. When I only use DIMM3, there are no problems.

I have everything set on optimal. I am not an OClocker, but I saw the memory settings where 7,3,3,2.5.

Bad motherboard? The memory appears to work fine, as long as it is in DIMM3. Thanks.

Hi johnnymobo and Welcome to the Forums!

Those mobo's usually love Corsair VS. Use Memtest86, one stick at a time. Repeat with diff slots. I think if you find all sticks are fine in slot 3, but none check out in the other slots-then prolly a mobo problem. If all single sticks check out OK in all slots, but just can't run two together, prolly bad sticks/can't handle DC.9EDIT, I see now it's an nf7-s2, there is no DC)

Fern

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: Peter
Does it still "appear to work fine" if you run memtest on it? www.memtest.org

That model Abit appears to be much less dependable than other NF7's. I had a ton of trouble with RAM on mine, and with running it at the proper 333 MHz (it was Kingston PC 3200) speed for the Barton XP 2800 cpu -- tried other RAM (PNY), same problems. Tried another cpu, same. Sent it back to Newegg and got a Gigabyte MB instead!


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