Important New info: Warm Boot problem w/ K7S5A + DDR

[SocrPlyr]

title pretty much says it all... if you try to restart it hangs before you see any winXP logo, but if you have SDR in it works fine
any ideas?
both types of ram are micron (sdr is cas2 and ddr is 2100 cas 2.5)
thanks guys,

Josh

 

[RSI]

First off, what power supply do you have, how many watts, and how many devices do you have attached to your system in total?

Does your system have any other problems other than the system hanging when you try to restart? Is it stable? Have you run any stability or performance tests? Have you tried using different ram slots for the DDR? Are you using the DDR alone or in conjuction with the SDR?

More information please!

-RSI

 

[SocrPlyr]

ok this is a brand new system i am building for my uncle there are no other problems w/ it
here are the full specs
300W PowerMan PSU
1.2 GHz Athlon
40GB Seagate 7200RPM
ati rage 2000 pro
Aopen 20x10x40x burner
floppy
zoom v.92 modem (happened before i put this in)
256MB Crucial DDR CL=2.5 // (in at a seperate time) 128MB Crucial SDR CL=2

thanks
Josh

 

[Mltsao]

Try another PSU.... if that doesnt work lower the memory settings.

Just keep trying different hardware if you can.

 

[SocrPlyr]

tried a different PSU (only a 250, but i dont' have much hooked) so i don't think that is it...
also the memory timings are already the slowest they can be set to...
any other ideas?

thanks
Josh

 

[SocrPlyr]

moving on up...

Josh

 

[cloudchief]

I had a simular problem, except with a cold boot. Installing Win2000 with the ACPI disabled solved the problem.

 

[renfield33]

mine hangs on cold boot. i just go into the bios, load optimized settings, reset the bus to 133, and boot... works fine. kind of annoying, though.
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[SocrPlyr]

do your guys' only do this w/ ddr or what... i just think my prob is really weird cuz i have never had a prob like this before... and it only does it w/ ddr... it can't be that much different than the sdr set up...
oh well
anyone else have some ideas?

Josh

 

[SocrPlyr]

we are looking at less than a week to fix this problem
my question is do you guys think this would be a mobo issue or a ram issue?
i really don't wanna try to replace both... i dont' have time for that...

thanks
Josh

 

[SocrPlyr]

i just remembered some important information...
if i set the FSB and Memory to 100MHz the DDR works fine but i get the warm boot problems when i up it to 133MHz
so do you guys think i might have gotten a bad stick of RAM or is it the mobo?

thanks again,
Josh

 

[SocrPlyr]

ooo guys i need some help now... please...
ok here is what happens... when i boot the computer cold... i get 256MB registered by the bios and 256MB registered by memtest-86...
but when i boot warm i get 256MB registered by the bios and 512MB registered by memtest-86...
the computer only has 256MB in it... so i now know why it isn't booting, but i don't know why it is picking up that it is 512MB RAM...
i'm "cross-shipping" an RMA w/ crucial... so we'll see if it is the ram tonight after i pick it up from the FedEx place...
i'm hoping that this will fix the problem if not (maybe if i put both sticks in it will ) ah a thought anyways...
i'd like some of your input if you would...

thanks
Josh

 

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