memmory problem?
 

Having a few probs with a couple of memory sticks,
I had two sticks both 133, one 256 meg one 128 meg, I was getting a lot of random error messages so I removed the 256 meg stick and everything was fine, I assumed the stick was up the swany.
I just swopped a mate a motherboard for a brand new 256meg stick of 133 ram, and I am getting exactly the same problems,.
I thought on modern motherbaoards 128 and 256 sticks could be installed together, am I wrong?
Anybody got any idea's :confused:

Tony,

What type of memory are you using? SDRAM/DDR/RDRAM?
What is the make/model of your motherboard?

FBW.

Not sure they have a profusion of numbers on the chips(very hard to read )but no specific info on type that I can see, each stick works fine by itself, just combined ie the 256 and 128 gives problems.
Mother board is a Space walker Shuttle, a very good board I'm told, I have also flashed the bios to take this AMD PX 1.5
Running the FSB AT 133mgz.

Hi Tony,
If both sticks are running OK on their own you have a memory refresh problem due to the mismatch.

Go into your BIOS startup screen and select a lower memory refresh rate. I don't know your Mboard, but you will either have options like "refresh = NORMAL / FAST / SLOWER" or CAS = 2/3. Go down to Slower or CAS = 3 . This should fix it.

If not get hold of a memory tester and run that. Lots of free ones on the web, seek and yea shall find.

Hope this helps

MG

Thanks MG will try that.