Hello,
I bought a new 1gb stick of RAM for the comp i was putting together. The RAM specs are
-PC3200 DDR
-Unbuffered, Non Ecc
-CAS Latency 3
-Chip density: 128x4
The mobo is a PCChips M861G.
So, when I got the PC put together and starting installing XP, things started going wrong. The installation would blue-screen at random points and/or the installer would say that it could not read from the CD. I could not finish installing.
I guessed that it was a memory issue, and changed one of the BIOS settings. I set the memory to 100Mhz instead of the regular 200Mhz.
After doing this, I managed to get through the installation. Windows is working now, but it is unstable. The programs I am using sometimes crash, and every so often I get a BSOD.
Memtest86 reveals that the memory is still having problems.
I have read that 128x4 chips are incompatible with certain motherboards. Could this be the problem? Or if the module was incombatile, would the computer not even boot? BIOS recognizes all 1gb, although I don't know if that means anything.
The reason I need to know is so I know whether or not to return the RAM. They only accept returns on defective modules, and incombatibilty is not considered a defect.
To sum up: how do I know whether the problem is a bad RAM module or whether it is incompatibility?
Thanks!
I bought a new 1gb stick of RAM for the comp i was putting together. The RAM specs are
-PC3200 DDR
-Unbuffered, Non Ecc
-CAS Latency 3
-Chip density: 128x4
The mobo is a PCChips M861G.
So, when I got the PC put together and starting installing XP, things started going wrong. The installation would blue-screen at random points and/or the installer would say that it could not read from the CD. I could not finish installing.
I guessed that it was a memory issue, and changed one of the BIOS settings. I set the memory to 100Mhz instead of the regular 200Mhz.
After doing this, I managed to get through the installation. Windows is working now, but it is unstable. The programs I am using sometimes crash, and every so often I get a BSOD.
Memtest86 reveals that the memory is still having problems.
I have read that 128x4 chips are incompatible with certain motherboards. Could this be the problem? Or if the module was incombatile, would the computer not even boot? BIOS recognizes all 1gb, although I don't know if that means anything.
The reason I need to know is so I know whether or not to return the RAM. They only accept returns on defective modules, and incombatibilty is not considered a defect.
To sum up: how do I know whether the problem is a bad RAM module or whether it is incompatibility?
Thanks!
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