[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you upgraded the BIOS? It seems Abit has made some changes to memory settings in later versions.Well I bought kingston value ram DDR400 512M * 2 for the athlon64 I built and it works. I have had good luck with kingston and crucial personally. I don't bother to "save" $10 per 512M anymore by getting the generic stuff. The last generic stuff I bought was a PC100 CL2 256M and it never did run stable faster than CL3 (so much for their claim).
Well, just an update in my quest-for-a-stable-and-fast-debian-amd64-system :)
I went and replaced the memory modules yesterday to Kingston value ram. Better, but not perfect. It's actually strange. I first booted the machine and it reported some CMOS error...I then realised that the bios (and later memtest86) reports the memory as DDR 333, although the packages in which I received the memory said DDR 400? Anyhow, I set up the DRAM timings to DDR 333 in bios, and after that it booted, ran memtest86 and even kernel compile + copying of a large directory of files + watching a video *all at the same time* without problems ...yes, the last one was a psychologically important... :)
So, now I can be 100% certain that it was memory incompatibility, just as you guys said! But I wont settle for DDR 333...out of principle I want to make this perfect now that I've started the war ;)
So it's back to store for me, they recomended Buffalo memory yesterday, maybe I'll give that a shot...
Thanks guys, I'm one step closer... juhis
Personally, I don't even remember what every motherboard says about the memory speeds. To me, when it works and is sufficiently fast is the time when I lay back and ignore the details. If you want, I can go check some of the settings that my AV8 systems say about memory.
I do recall at least two people mentioning that in some setups, with some position of the moon etc, DDR400 memory doesn't function at more than DDR333 speed. Unfortunately, I never paid much attention to the details here.
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