Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
The system
MB:Soyo K7V Dragon+
Case:Antec w/300w
Video: Leadtec Ti 4200 128mb
Ram: 256mb pc2100 DDR Centon(3)
HD:WD 80gb 8mb buffer
CDRW:24x10x40 cendyne
CD:32x
OS:WinXP pro
The story:
Everything was fine running 3 256mb chips, when my son noticed that one of the online games he was playing was dropping him to desktop. It was mentioned that maybe the program (EQ) didn't like 768mb ram and he should try running 512. We later found out that it was something else and I reinstalled the 3rd chip. When I did this I somehow didn't get the chip seated properly and it burned up. There is a visible brown burn spot on the memory sticker. I pulled the chip and the system rebooted fine and recognized the 512mb that was left. However when I run 3dmark2001 Se it will lock up. I pulled the chip from bank 2 leaving only 256 mb in bank 1 and everything seems to run fine. I swapped the DDR chip that was in bank 2 with the chip in bank 1, now having still 256mb with 1 chip in bank 1 and everything seems to run fine. When I add the 256 chip to bank 2 (not the burnt one) the system starts to reboot when ever I run 3dMark and even sometimes when I just click on an Icon to start some other program.
XP pro tells me that it thinks a driver is messing me up but can't really tell, I filed the report.
Every thing seems to run fine with just one memory bank containing a chip, however my 3dMark results seem to vary from ~8300 --> ~7200, prior to this they were up above 9000.
I am hoping that I didn't fry out my mb but if some one could offer me some suggestion or thing that can isolate the problem. Maybe there is some diagnostic software I could use to see what is up.
Once again, any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
The system
MB:Soyo K7V Dragon+
Case:Antec w/300w
Video: Leadtec Ti 4200 128mb
Ram: 256mb pc2100 DDR Centon(3)
HD:WD 80gb 8mb buffer
CDRW:24x10x40 cendyne
CD:32x
OS:WinXP pro
The story:
Everything was fine running 3 256mb chips, when my son noticed that one of the online games he was playing was dropping him to desktop. It was mentioned that maybe the program (EQ) didn't like 768mb ram and he should try running 512. We later found out that it was something else and I reinstalled the 3rd chip. When I did this I somehow didn't get the chip seated properly and it burned up. There is a visible brown burn spot on the memory sticker. I pulled the chip and the system rebooted fine and recognized the 512mb that was left. However when I run 3dmark2001 Se it will lock up. I pulled the chip from bank 2 leaving only 256 mb in bank 1 and everything seems to run fine. I swapped the DDR chip that was in bank 2 with the chip in bank 1, now having still 256mb with 1 chip in bank 1 and everything seems to run fine. When I add the 256 chip to bank 2 (not the burnt one) the system starts to reboot when ever I run 3dMark and even sometimes when I just click on an Icon to start some other program.
XP pro tells me that it thinks a driver is messing me up but can't really tell, I filed the report.
Every thing seems to run fine with just one memory bank containing a chip, however my 3dMark results seem to vary from ~8300 --> ~7200, prior to this they were up above 9000.
I am hoping that I didn't fry out my mb but if some one could offer me some suggestion or thing that can isolate the problem. Maybe there is some diagnostic software I could use to see what is up.
Once again, any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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