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memory problem (i think)

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TP

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I am putting a PC together. I bought a tbird 700, MSI k7t pro. I put in my 128 mb's of memory from my old system, 2 sticks of 64mb pc100...

At first it seemed to be fine, then I couldnt get WIN98SE to begin installing. It was giving me this message: "standard mode: invalid DPMI return from 0387: 08FC", and said i needed to remove floppy and reboot.

I tried scrubbing the hard drive (seagate barracuda II, 7200rpm, 20 gig)...but kept getting this message as windows started to try and copy setup files.

Then I noticed after maybe my 3rd time through, i was getting a "memory test fail" message. I dont know, maybe that message was there all along, but I didnt notice it.

so I removed 1 stick of memory and the windows would now install. (but now I am getting a floppy fail 40 message)..

The 2 sticks of memory I have are both 64mb pc100, but not the same brand. is there something I need to do in the bios to setup my memory??? these two sticks worked fine together in my old 233mhz machine...but are they maybe incompatible now?

Also, I've just read a little in the forums about guys talking about cas2/cas3 and the ns of their memory...how do they get this info??? Why dont they list this info when you go to buy memory??? All I can tell is what I can read on the chip...

any help is greatly appreciated.

todd
 
Have you tried the obvious trial and error?
The quick setup you could do in the BIOS is to load BIOS defaults which are *probably* going to be the slowest, safest settings for everything, including memory.
I would personally try one DIMM at a time and see if they each work individually.
Then try combinations together to see what is the culprit.
 
Go into Bios & select 8/10ns settings ,next select CL3(FOR CAS3 RAM) ,also make sure host clk is set at default not +33 which is for 133 ram.These are the slowest settings if you still get problems then you may have to try new ram or one stick etc.Btw Crucial ram works 100% with this board, I should know since that`s what I`m using.

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