I admit, I decided to be a bit of a cheapskate when building this system. I am a student after all!
Instead of purchasing a 2GB Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB Sticks) from Crucial for PC3200 RAM, I found it was cheaper to buy two 1GB sticks by themselves. So I did that and thought that putting these in Dual Channel mode on my A7N8X-E Deluxe with my AXP 3200+ will work without any problems. However, I think I am now paying the price for shaving a couple of pounds off the memory!! I am getting Random BSODs and on my previous reinstall I had an Application Error and Memory not being able to be "read", usually the victims being Winlogon.exe, General Services or lsass.exe and as a result, the entire PC would be forced to shutdown within 30 seconds!!
Does this sound like a symptom of using two single 1GB memory sticks in dual channel channel despite them not being sold as a "dual channel" kit!?! All the other hardware is new, has been tested in other machines and is working fine, and even following these BSOD/Application error restarts the Windows Error Reporting will almost always blame the memory or a device driver which it doesn't know!! The device driver problem has rarely occured, only if the BSOD reads "IRQ not less than or equal"
On contacting Asus about this problem, they recommended I get Kingston memory as that is the best supported by the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe board, or failing that Samsung memory. However they recommended that I get DDR333 Memory in dual channel kit and a 1GB DDR333 stick to achieve the full 3GB. I cant do this as this will result in my processor running underclocked!! Thing is when looking through Kingston website and telling them my motherboard, they included a DDR400 single and dual channel kit in the list!! Which sticks can I use then to achieve 3GB of Memory, (2GB in dual Channel and 1GB in single channel) without any BSODs or Application errors!!
Can any other fellow Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe users or experienced gurus please help me with the above!! Three Windows installs later and I am still getting this problems amongst others!!
Instead of purchasing a 2GB Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB Sticks) from Crucial for PC3200 RAM, I found it was cheaper to buy two 1GB sticks by themselves. So I did that and thought that putting these in Dual Channel mode on my A7N8X-E Deluxe with my AXP 3200+ will work without any problems. However, I think I am now paying the price for shaving a couple of pounds off the memory!! I am getting Random BSODs and on my previous reinstall I had an Application Error and Memory not being able to be "read", usually the victims being Winlogon.exe, General Services or lsass.exe and as a result, the entire PC would be forced to shutdown within 30 seconds!!
Does this sound like a symptom of using two single 1GB memory sticks in dual channel channel despite them not being sold as a "dual channel" kit!?! All the other hardware is new, has been tested in other machines and is working fine, and even following these BSOD/Application error restarts the Windows Error Reporting will almost always blame the memory or a device driver which it doesn't know!! The device driver problem has rarely occured, only if the BSOD reads "IRQ not less than or equal"
On contacting Asus about this problem, they recommended I get Kingston memory as that is the best supported by the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe board, or failing that Samsung memory. However they recommended that I get DDR333 Memory in dual channel kit and a 1GB DDR333 stick to achieve the full 3GB. I cant do this as this will result in my processor running underclocked!! Thing is when looking through Kingston website and telling them my motherboard, they included a DDR400 single and dual channel kit in the list!! Which sticks can I use then to achieve 3GB of Memory, (2GB in dual Channel and 1GB in single channel) without any BSODs or Application errors!!
Can any other fellow Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe users or experienced gurus please help me with the above!! Three Windows installs later and I am still getting this problems amongst others!!