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Soyo K7VME w/ 2800+

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buschman31

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I have a ? inregards to a Soyo K7VME board. The board takes non ecc registered memory but if ecc registered is put in one of the memory slots will it burn out a good cpu that had been working before? Had a 2800+ on the board but when i had tested the ecc memory the chip didnt post and then shut down. After one or two attempts to retry the chip nothing happened. But i put a Duron 950 chip and the board posted. So i'm assuming that the ecc memory burned out the 2800+. Any thoughts or comments on this.
 
Hey Busch,

that motherboard takes regular DDR 333/2700 RAM: not ECC, not registered/buffered.
I think the ECC chips get ignored by motherboards that aren't built to take ECC, but I am not sure about that......and, I do not think there are non-ECC but registered modules--

Without some more info, like model # or product # on the RAM, hard to say what is up. Regardless, most motherboards are picky even about the ram they are designed for, best not to mix up the wrong type and hope it works.

From a quick search, it looks like that board uses jumpers (!) for FSB settings, etc:

http://www.motherboardpoint.co...soyo-syk7vme-mobo.html

Since that CPU does not have an on-die memory controller, it is unlikely that the wrong memory nuked the CPU. However: the wrong memory module could damage the motherboard itself, starting with the VIA northbridge I suppose.

http://soyo.com/product/AMD_Duron/37/SY-K7VME/228

Here is owner's manual, perhaps this can help some--jumper settings, troubleshooting ,etc.

http://www.soyo.com.tw/dl/manu...-sg/k7/qk7vm333v11.pdf

HTH

NXIL
 
Well in the manual it says specifically that it takes non ecc ram. The ram in that i used was xr-ddr128x72-400r 1gb ecc reg. Its possible that i didnt have enough thermal paste between the chip and hsf and the chip overheated causing the board to shutdown. Like i said i tried a Duron 950 and it fired right back on up. So it has to be the chip that got fried. How is questionable. And i just bought that chip w/ a thermaltake hsf for $15 last summer. Well i have a Duron 1000, Athlon 1400, 1900 and 2800 thats totally useless.
 
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