P4 Nothwood on prescott motherboard

[blondie46319]

My son wanted for Christmas a SY-P4RC350 SOYO motherboard and a new case.
Putting every this together and running CPUID I noticed he had a P4 2.4mhz Northwood chip.
Everything seems to work OK, except one stick (out of two) ram Pc3200 is not registering.
We put two sticks of pc2700 and both registered. CPU is running @ 68 deg. f

Board states Supported CPU: Socket 478 Pentium 4 Prescott(HT)/Celeron D Processors

Could the Northwood be causing this problem?

 

[imported_Phil]

Try the PC3200 stick on its own.

The Northwood chip won't be causing the problem.

 

[Matt155]

Are you saying you had 2 sticks of the 3200 ram and one of them would not register?
Or are you sayine you had one stick of 3200 ram and 1 stick of 2700 ram installed on the board and the 3200 did not register?

Check the 3200 ram that won't register on another system if possible.

 

[blondie46319]

Uses 2 Pc3200 512mb sticks (1 kingston & 1 corsair)
in Slot 3 & slot 4 (slot 1&2 not on board ,SY-p4s350 has 4 slots)
both show up using cpuid, but in the bios and under winxp mycomputer properties show on 512mb.
With the pc2700 256mb sticks both regester in cpuid and winxp properties and bios.

 

[blondie46319]

took the two pc3200 to a matrix computer running P4 2ghz
and both regestered.

 

[Matt155]

Ok did you try the 3200 memory sticks one at a time in your sons motherboard?

 

[blondie46319]

Yes both show up as 512mb each
when testes one at a time

 

[LTC8K6]

Northwood should be fine in that board.

I see that board has the ATI R9100 chipset with 128MB of it's own graphics memory onboard. Sounds like a decent onboard solution.

Edit: Hmmmm...I'm not sure about that on board memory. Soyo's description leads me to believe that, but I don't see any memory on the board.

 

[blondie46319]

ATI R9100 chipset shares your installed memory