Has anyone in this forum run an abit kt7a with more than a gig of ram and using the third memory slot?
My friend and I both have the KT7A and are running KT7A9 bios. We both use VMWARE to test new products for work, and so we need a lot of memory so we can simulate clusters and other server apps (Exchange/SharePoint Portal Server/Etc.). I started out with a 512mb stick of memory, then got another 256mb for a total of 768mb in TWO slots. My friend had two 512mb sticks and a 256mb stick in his THIRD slot. When he did this he had also upgraded to the GeForce 4ti video card. He was getting random reboots, and had a very unstable system. He finally removed the 256mb stick from the third slot and his system was stable.
This past week I got my 512mb stick. I was running 512mb in all 3 slots. XP seems fine, 2k seems fine, advance server seems fine. However, when I was in win2k (gaming os) and tried to play DAoC (Dark Ages of Camelot) the computer locked up. I immediately suspected the memory and thought I had a bad stick. So I took out the 512 and put in a 256mb stick instead. Loaded 2k, loaded DAoC..Same issue, hung on loading. I thought it might just be DAoC. So I tried Battlefield 1942, that crashed too.
Anyway, to make a long story short I ended up keeping the two 512mb sticks in slot 1 and 2. The third slot is being naughty. I will do another test where I run less than a gig of memory, but spread across all three slots. This will test if its a bad slot or a limitation of the MB. I want to test to see if this damn motherboard can really run 1.5 gigs of memory and stay stable, or if they LIED! There are a few ways to test memory, and booting to the OS isn't really one of them:
1) Load Adobe Photoshop and config it to take up as much extra memory as possible. When it hits bad sector it will crash something. ;o)
2) Play any high end video game and watch the magic or Dr.Watson!
My Specs:
ABIT KT7A (LATEST BIOS)
1.5 gigs of PC133 Infineon memory
AMD 1.4 (133/266) Athlon
Gainward GeFORCE3 PowerPack!!! Ti/450 w/ 128mb of mem
Maxtor 80 gig ATA133 hard drive
IBM 30 gig Deskstar ATA133 hard drive
Belkin 2.0 USB xpansion card
Asus 40x CD-Rom
Creative 12x DVD Drive
Yamaha external CDR Burner
Fans GALORE
My friend and I both have the KT7A and are running KT7A9 bios. We both use VMWARE to test new products for work, and so we need a lot of memory so we can simulate clusters and other server apps (Exchange/SharePoint Portal Server/Etc.). I started out with a 512mb stick of memory, then got another 256mb for a total of 768mb in TWO slots. My friend had two 512mb sticks and a 256mb stick in his THIRD slot. When he did this he had also upgraded to the GeForce 4ti video card. He was getting random reboots, and had a very unstable system. He finally removed the 256mb stick from the third slot and his system was stable.
This past week I got my 512mb stick. I was running 512mb in all 3 slots. XP seems fine, 2k seems fine, advance server seems fine. However, when I was in win2k (gaming os) and tried to play DAoC (Dark Ages of Camelot) the computer locked up. I immediately suspected the memory and thought I had a bad stick. So I took out the 512 and put in a 256mb stick instead. Loaded 2k, loaded DAoC..Same issue, hung on loading. I thought it might just be DAoC. So I tried Battlefield 1942, that crashed too.
Anyway, to make a long story short I ended up keeping the two 512mb sticks in slot 1 and 2. The third slot is being naughty. I will do another test where I run less than a gig of memory, but spread across all three slots. This will test if its a bad slot or a limitation of the MB. I want to test to see if this damn motherboard can really run 1.5 gigs of memory and stay stable, or if they LIED! There are a few ways to test memory, and booting to the OS isn't really one of them:
1) Load Adobe Photoshop and config it to take up as much extra memory as possible. When it hits bad sector it will crash something. ;o)
2) Play any high end video game and watch the magic or Dr.Watson!
My Specs:
ABIT KT7A (LATEST BIOS)
1.5 gigs of PC133 Infineon memory
AMD 1.4 (133/266) Athlon
Gainward GeFORCE3 PowerPack!!! Ti/450 w/ 128mb of mem
Maxtor 80 gig ATA133 hard drive
IBM 30 gig Deskstar ATA133 hard drive
Belkin 2.0 USB xpansion card
Asus 40x CD-Rom
Creative 12x DVD Drive
Yamaha external CDR Burner
Fans GALORE
