Bryce Hardy said:
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?
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, I run an Athon 64 3200+ running on an Abit KV8 Max3 motherboard. I have 2 sticks of Crucial DDR400 memory installed and the box works fine. However there is a restriction documented by Abit and AMD that you cannot have more than 2 DDR400 DIMMS installed, adding a 3rd would required the bus speed being dropped to 333MHz. If you only have 2 DIMMS installed then this isn't an answer to your problem, if you have 3 or more DIMMS installed then you are into unknown teritory. -- David Bottrill david@bottrill.org www.bottrill.org Registered Linux user number 330730