Gigabyte 8KNXP/8IK1100 owners: Is my memory useless with this board?

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AjDman

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Aug 10, 2003
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Well, there's another weekend shot to hell.

I just bought a Gigabyte 8IK1100 (aka the stripped down 8KNXP). It replaces my Gigabyte 8PE667, which died a slow-but-honorable death.

Trouble is - I was hoping to re-use my two identical Crucial PC2700 CL2.5 333mHz 512MB DDR chips with this new dual channel board.

Is that even possible? I've had a devil of a time getting this board to stabilize at all with this "old" memory. Hours of tinkering at this point.... lots of crashes at first, barely able to even reload XP. Slowly, it's stabilizing (I'm running Prime95 right now, fingers crossed).

But it's not at all where I want it: I had to ratchet the memory down to 266 mHz, CAS of 3, DIMM overvolt at +.2, and a bunch of other reallllly relaxed (read: slow) timings. And that's with only one 512mb chip in. If I pop the other 512mb chip in & go dual channel, I can't get a stable boot. And I'm not even overclocking yet.

Am I f-cked? Do I need to just buy new memory now? If so, which kind works & is SUPER stable with this mb (two 512mb's, preferrably)? I don't absolutely need to overclock right now. Just want this to work. Specs are below.

best,
aj
detroit

Specs
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2.53 Intel p4 533 fsb processor
Gigabyte 8IK1100 motherboard
Radeon 9100 64MB AGP video card
Antec SmartPower 300W ps
Two Crucial PC2700 CL2.5 333mHz 512MB DDR chips (model #PC2700U-25330-b1)
Maxtor 80gb drive
 
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Canterwood

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May 25, 2003
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I really cant understand why your setup wont work.
It should be fine with two similar sticks of Ram whether its DDR333 or not.
I have this board, but I upgraded my cpu and memory at the same time.
I was running a 2.4C with two 256mb sticks of CorsairXMS 3200 DDR (400mhz) and had zero problems. Super stable without tweaking.
Since I've overclocked to 3.0ghz (250mhz fsb) I've upgraded to two sticks of Geil PC4000 Ultra Platinum DDR (500mhz), again without any problems.
Have you upgraded to the F7 bios?
And I'm probably stating the obvious, but you know about the CTRL-F1 to get advanced ram settings in the bios?
Faulty board?
Your not trying to enable PAT are you? I know it wont work with anything below an 800fsb chip.
Sorry I cant be of more help.
 
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AjDman

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Aug 10, 2003
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Thanks for the advice... I can't believe such a well-thought of board has such big-time memory flakiness. Perhaps this is just a problem with the 875 chipset in general.

In the meantime, I seem to have stablized both of the 512MB chips in my system (at 266mhz, alas) by configuring them in as single channel memory. Oh well. This sort of defeats the purpose of upgrading to a dual-channel board.

What's Crucial's lifetime warranty like? Will they take these DIMMs back (purchased last May, I think) or exchange for something that will work?

(What will work, anyone know?)

Best,
Aj
Detroit
 
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tallman45

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May 27, 2003
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Mushkins works fine with this mb. Dual channel will get you double the bandwidth, it is definately worth getting memory that will work in dual channel mode.

As for the flakiness, I agree a mb should be able to work with less than stellar memory at relaxed timings. Not everyone needs CAS 2-2-2. But I guess that once you get mem that works with this mb you will know that all is working at it's best.

Fyi, I have read that a lot of builders use the Mushkin Promo build ram
 
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