Hello,
I'm building a from-scratch PC and now that its mechanically/physically together I'm having trouble getting it working. It can boot from the CD, and I can get into BIOS and it appears healthy (can see memory/hdd/etc).
Specifically when I run Memtest86 during an Ubuntu install it suffers an interrupt a few seconds after starting the test and stops. I can't install either XP or Ubuntu without the process locking/crashing very soon into the process. (Thanks to Ubuntu for including Memtest86 in their intro menu or I'd be completely lost!)
My PC's stats:
Mobo: Intel DG33BU
CPU: Core 2 Duo 6550 (stock speed--no O/C)
RAM: OCZ2P800R22GK (PC-6400 800 2gb kit)
SATA HDD (1)
BFG graphics
Antec 350w PSU
The Intel documentation says that the mobo supports PC-6400 at 5-5-5 or 6-6-6 timings only (BIOS shows 5-5-5 as the default). The memory I bought is rated at 4-4-4-15. I'm not a memory guru but the difference makes me wonder if I have the wrong chips. I want to ask people who will know more than me about this before running off and buying new memory if that's not the real problem.
Thoughts welcome and appreciated!
Greg
I'm building a from-scratch PC and now that its mechanically/physically together I'm having trouble getting it working. It can boot from the CD, and I can get into BIOS and it appears healthy (can see memory/hdd/etc).
Specifically when I run Memtest86 during an Ubuntu install it suffers an interrupt a few seconds after starting the test and stops. I can't install either XP or Ubuntu without the process locking/crashing very soon into the process. (Thanks to Ubuntu for including Memtest86 in their intro menu or I'd be completely lost!)
My PC's stats:
Mobo: Intel DG33BU
CPU: Core 2 Duo 6550 (stock speed--no O/C)
RAM: OCZ2P800R22GK (PC-6400 800 2gb kit)
SATA HDD (1)
BFG graphics
Antec 350w PSU
The Intel documentation says that the mobo supports PC-6400 at 5-5-5 or 6-6-6 timings only (BIOS shows 5-5-5 as the default). The memory I bought is rated at 4-4-4-15. I'm not a memory guru but the difference makes me wonder if I have the wrong chips. I want to ask people who will know more than me about this before running off and buying new memory if that's not the real problem.
Thoughts welcome and appreciated!
Greg
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