On Tuesday 01 July 2003 21:49, Tracy LCpl Derek E wrote: > Has anyone ever heard of a chipset(in my case KT333) or motherboard that > conflicts not with the type of ram but the ram chipsets ie. Winbond, Nanya, > Samsung? I have figured out this problem the ram was not bad that is why > it passed the memtest testing it was the Winbond chips on the ram that > conflict with my motherboard, I find it very strange and was wondering if > anyone has had any problems with this in the past. For my setup I found > that Winbond chips do not work and have tried 4 different ram sticks with > these chips on them and none worked, on the same note I tried 6 or 7 ram > sticks with a variety of chips on them (Nanya and Samsung mostly) and all > of those worked without a glitch. Again I have figured this out and it > just seems very strange to me.
Are your winbond chips from the same manufacture? Problems with different memory-sticks in different mobos are not uncommon. I remebered, when I bought my second 256mb ddr-sdram stick, an samsung modul, I got some discount, because the modul was not running in some boards. In my K7S5A (SiS 735) It was stable with conservative timings, with my K7S8X (SiS 746FX) it is rock stable even with aggressive timings. There is a lot of crap out there. Cheap 'noname' chips on modules with incorrect spd-eeprom. If you want to be on the save side, look after Infinion and Micron. I had some problems with f* hyundai and nanya based modules (most problems I had and seen were nanya and hyundai based memory-sticks) and one of the worst piece of crap I have ever seen was a Kingston modul... yeah.. good marketing and high prices mean nothing. If you have windows running get ctspd from here www.heise.de and have a look into the spd-eeprom of your modules.. sometimes it is disillusioning how crappy so called 'brand' modules are. And bad spd-settings are a common cause for stability problems. With linux try the eeprom.o and dcode-dimms.pl from lm_sensors. Gl�ck Auf, Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
