Added More ram and now games crash.

[LokiX]

I had 2x256mb pc2100 Crucial ram in my system. I added a single 512 to bring me to 1024 total. Now when i play Tiger Woods 2004 the game crashes to the desktop. I havent tried another game yet because i also started getting random errors with other apps such as Explorer and Office. When i first installed the ram and started the game i left it running, came back to a bsod with a physical mem dump. NEVER had one of those sence i started using crucial ram. I have updated video drivers and flashed my BIOS, uninstalled and rinstalled the game and nothing has helped. The only thing that fixes it is to remove the 512 stick. I noticed after i ordered the ram while doing some shoping on new egg that Crucial has single sided and double sided ram. I appears the my new ram is single sided and my old ram is double sided. Could this be the problem? I emailed Crucial yesterday about it and havnt heard back yet.(acant check personal email from work). I really want to use this ram but fear something bigger may be wrong. I have a Soyo K7v Dragon+ adnd a XP1800+ CPU.

 

[xSauronx]

try the 512 by itself and see if you still have problems

 

[LokiX]

guess i'll give that a try. thats the one thing i havnt tried yet. That will at least tell me if its a compatability issue with the other ram. Thanx.

 

[myocardia]

Were you aware that 512MB of ram is the max that you can use with any version of Windows 98? Of course, just ignore this post if you have WinXP!

 

[Looney]

Yes, single sided density and double sided density ram could be the problem. Or it could be the memory itself is bad. Or it could be your motherboard becomes unstable when all 3 banks are used.

First, i would check the memory itself... if it's just fine, and works by itself, then it's not the memory. I've seen boards that have a problem with single sided density, but that incompatibility problem will arise almost immediately. Either the ram won't be recognize, or you'll be getting errors when doing a memtest, or when trying to boot into Windows.

 

[LokiX]

I am running Win XP Pro. I will try the ram by its self and see what happens. But if it works by its self, how can i determine if its my board or if its the single sided, double sided issue?

 

[LokiX]

Ok. Checked it out. With the 512 stick in, the gam runs fine. Left it in bank 0 and added just one of my 256 sticks checking to see if it may be the all 3 banks full issue and the game started acting screwy again. So what next? Thanx again for ya'lls help.

 

[GunDog]

The Soyo Dragon can not use 3 sticks of ram. I ran across the same problem when trying to use 3x 256. When the board first came out the review sites stated the mobo was flakey with all dimm slots populated.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: LokiX
Ok. Checked it out. With the 512 stick in, the gam runs fine. Left it in bank 0 and added just one of my 256 sticks checking to see if it may be the all 3 banks full issue and the game started acting screwy again. So what next? Thanx again for ya'lls help.

Sounds like you can't use all 3 banks. That's not an uncommon problem. My MSI KT3 Ultra2 doesn't like 3 banks being used either... even if they're completely identical in every way. Just bad engineering.

 

[LokiX]

Originally posted by: LokiX
Ok. Checked it out. With the 512 stick in, the gam runs fine. Left it in bank 0 and added just one of my 256 sticks checking to see if it may be the all 3 banks full issue and the game started acting screwy again. So what next? Thanx again for ya'lls help.

I only had 2 banks full. So what i currently have is the double sided 256 stick and the single sided 512 stick and i am still having the issue. I dont have all 3 banks full.

 

[alm4rr]

any change?