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RAM and AMD cpus.. got a guestion

rudder

rudder

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I am putting together a AMD system. Socket 939 (so I am outdated). I am using a biostar 6100-939 mobo with a venice core 3500+. I wanted to use my dual channel kit from my intel setup. It is corsair xms twin1024 pc3200 ram.

For some reason the system will lock up when I use that ram even just one stick. I threw in some generic, mismatched pc2100 ddr ram from an older XP1800+ athlon system and the thing runs like a champ.

Are A64 cpus real picky when it comes to RAM or is it the motherboard?

I don't overclock and I knew the XMS ram was overkill, but my intel system liked it fine.

Am I just missing something?
 
motherboards have its own preferences.

my motherboard prefers corsair the most so i went with corsair.
 
when you say locked up, during windows? in the BiOS? maybe you should try increasing the voltage for the RAM and/or relaxing the timings. there is not reason that the RAM shouldn't work with your mobo.
 
Forummaster, yeh that is what confused me. It locked up at random times after windows would boot. If I used onboard video, the display would be corrupted. It was completely random. I would run stress prime 2004 and would never run for more than 4 minutes before locking up. I have had it running for over an hour on the generic ram.

I have got everything set at default now so that may be the problem. There are some volatage settings I am unfamiliar with on this motherboard along with a jumper that affects ram voltage.
 
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