New system, bad memory?

[Guest]

Greetings,
Its way past my bedtime so Im gonna keep it short...
I just bought a new barebones system (asus a7v/duron 600) and installed some second hand hardware and cant go more than 5 minutes without locking up. I suspect the memory (IBM pc100) as it starts to POST, I go into cmos to configure my hd and then the thing freezes up. I tried lowering the voltage to the memory and it froze almost immediately, then I raised it and it ran for maybe 5-7 minutes (longest). Any ideas???
~Jeff

 

[machow]

There are many reasons for such a thing. Maybe it is not the RAM?

Morgan 1.6Ghz + 256DDR SDRAM = Dream on
However dreams are approacable

 

[JOJO]

what are the temp settings in the bios hardware?
keep an eye on it just b4 it crashes...
you could have a misalligned or improperly seated hsf


and is it generic memory?
crucial is pretty good to go with...

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by jojo on 11/12/00 12:34 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Guest]

Turns out that it probably was a bad stick, I just bought a generic 64meg pc133 and it seems to run fine. Thanks....
~Jeff