I just built a new computer, I do alot of video and 3d rendering and some of the programs i use are memory intensive so I got 4 512 pc3200, after building the computer i found out that memory controller dosent like all 4 slots being occupied so i have reverted to 1 gig of ram. well now i have the problem of what do i do with 1 gig of pc 3200?
my former computer was an asus dual amd rig that when i built, bought 2 xp 2000's but found out that the mp bridge on the chips were laser cut so even though i tried i eventualy gave up on bridging them and running in mp mode. so incedently I have had an extra 2000 sitting in the draw for the last 4 years. thru some other dealings i aquired the same asus board (except for the dual proccessor suport) and decided to use it to build a computer for my son, now i had a home for my 2000. I took 1 of the pc2100 512 i had in my asus box and put it in his so at this point my grandson (who inherited my asus rig) and my son have basicly the same machines.
i never had a problem with this computer and in fact was running hl2 and doom 3 on it before building my new A64 3500+ box, when i fixed this up for my grandson i formated and reinstalled xp and sp2, now suddenly counterstrike frezzes and locks the computer up. well since all i did was reduce the memory i figure its a memory issue so i think " wonder if this asus board will run pc3200, i pull out the one stick of 2100 and put in 2 sticks of 3200. it boots and sees 1 gig of ram and im in windows. I loaded cpuz and looked at the memory page and it is all good then when i went to the spd page it is mostly blank but like i said im running fine.
at this point i tried to install aquamark3 but it kept bluescreening and restarting like it would do in counterstrike. well after 4 times i finaly decided i had enough, so i reformated, and reinstalled xp .when xp finished installing i got another blue screen, this one however didnt cause a reboot but did a memory dump and stayed on screen so i able to read it. the error is "Memory_management"
my thoughts are this is most likely caused by the pc3200 in this older system, if it is, is there any thing i can do to help insure its compatability (BIOS settings and so on)? the board is an asus A7M266-D
any thoughts would be appreciated
my former computer was an asus dual amd rig that when i built, bought 2 xp 2000's but found out that the mp bridge on the chips were laser cut so even though i tried i eventualy gave up on bridging them and running in mp mode. so incedently I have had an extra 2000 sitting in the draw for the last 4 years. thru some other dealings i aquired the same asus board (except for the dual proccessor suport) and decided to use it to build a computer for my son, now i had a home for my 2000. I took 1 of the pc2100 512 i had in my asus box and put it in his so at this point my grandson (who inherited my asus rig) and my son have basicly the same machines.
i never had a problem with this computer and in fact was running hl2 and doom 3 on it before building my new A64 3500+ box, when i fixed this up for my grandson i formated and reinstalled xp and sp2, now suddenly counterstrike frezzes and locks the computer up. well since all i did was reduce the memory i figure its a memory issue so i think " wonder if this asus board will run pc3200, i pull out the one stick of 2100 and put in 2 sticks of 3200. it boots and sees 1 gig of ram and im in windows. I loaded cpuz and looked at the memory page and it is all good then when i went to the spd page it is mostly blank but like i said im running fine.
at this point i tried to install aquamark3 but it kept bluescreening and restarting like it would do in counterstrike. well after 4 times i finaly decided i had enough, so i reformated, and reinstalled xp .when xp finished installing i got another blue screen, this one however didnt cause a reboot but did a memory dump and stayed on screen so i able to read it. the error is "Memory_management"
my thoughts are this is most likely caused by the pc3200 in this older system, if it is, is there any thing i can do to help insure its compatability (BIOS settings and so on)? the board is an asus A7M266-D
any thoughts would be appreciated