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Adding memory gives BSOD's every 5 minutes

I have a ASUS board with AMD Athalon processor. The board has 3 memory slots and accepts max two DDR333 modules and max of 3GB memory. I already had a DDR333 512MB on board so I got two DDR266 512 modules. When I poped in the two modules everything booted fine and windows shows 1.5GB of memory but then I got a STOP ERROR (BSOD) and the computer reboot.

So then I downloaded MEMTEST and ran test on all three individually and everything went good. Then I poped all three in and ran MEMTEST and I got errors towards the end.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Irwin Santos

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nobus

well, i had the same problem with identical memory sticks, and had to remove one.
Never found a cure : it works fine with 1 stick, and not with 2 x 512 MB sticks, both kingston, same model.

nobus

...a,d it was an ASROCK board (Asus too)

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computerfixins

Also try cushioning your ram settings.

Manaully set the speed to 266mhz.

Also turn down the cas latencies, refresh, etc.

mjeet

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Here is the motherboard page specifying the memory requirements

http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=a7v8x-x

I just plugged in the two DDR266 512's and removed the PC333 512 and went to bios and the memory timing shows auto and 333. And it is set to auto.

mjeet

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nevermind guys. my bad. I just figured out both the new modules are DDR333 single bank. For some reason I kept thinking that they were DDR266.