Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (321 mails)

[Cotton <cotton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My MSI K8T800 FIS2R mobo was rock solid with Mushkin DDR 400 222 Special 
(CAS2-2-2 timings) in Win32/64, FC2 and Suse 9.1 x86_64...

Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:

> Don't get too tight performance ram, go with a manufacturer that sticks
> to jdec timmings. i.e Samsung. Not Mushkin/OCZ/Corsair. The CAS Timmings
> on any of the "Performance" Brands tend to run too tight for many of the
> amd 64 chipsets. This is especially true of the nforce3 150's and the
> k8t800 chipset based Mobo's. I don't know if the nforce3 2xx series are
> any better.
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:38, Matt T. wrote:
>  
>
> > On Wednesday 28 July 2004 10:57, Bryce Hardy wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I bought my AMD64 system in early May. It has a 3200+ processor on a
> > > Gigabyte K8N Pro MB with 1 GB of DDR 400 RAM. For over two months I've been
> > > running SuSE 9.1 in 64 bit mode with no problems. Suddenly a week or so ago
> > > I encountered system freeze ups to the point where I couldn't even run
> > > Knoppix anymore.
> > >
> > > Long story short, the repair guy at the local shop I bought the box at said
> > > that on AMD64 systems, the DDR 400 memory needs to be underclocked down to
> > > DDR 333.
> > >
> > > "Why would it work for two months with no problem?" said I.
> > >
> > > "That's the way they are." said he.
> > >
> > > Does this sound right? Does anyone here have DDR 400 RAM on their boxes
> > > that work properly?
> > >      
> > It does not sound right.
> >
> > But it is possible that the memory is not ok. Why don't you load the SuSE 
> > install DVD and run the memtest there. It will show if there is an issue with 
> > the memory.
> >
> > And if yes, your local shop should exchange the faulty ones...
> >
> > You could also replace them for testing with other DDR 400 RAMs, to see if teh 
> > problem goes away. And again, if yes, your local shop should exchange the 
> > faulty ones...
> >
> > I had a similar problem once where it helped to simply take the memory our and 
> > put it back again, as if somehow a contact would have been not good 
> > somewhere.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Matt
> >
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I haven't even gone into how they snookered me out of $100 for a new hard
> > > drive when we thought the freeze ups were related to hard drive access. So
> > > you can see the reason I'm a little sceptical. It just doesn't sound right
> > > that you can't run DDR 400 on 64 bit, but who knows? (Hopefully someone
> > > here, which is why I'm asking... :-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA USA)
> > > cygnia@xxxxxxxx
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