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re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)'
Sunday, September 22, 2002 at 12:55 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob
(177 messages posted)
Since everything works fine with 2 sticks of memory at a time, like 2 512Mb in the
first two slots, but does not work with 1 stick or 3 sticks, looks like you need
to fill the memory banks 2 with the same size memory sticks, I can only advise that
you get another 1Gb memory stick and use these 1Gb memory sticks, 2 at a time like
you installed the 512Mb sticks that worked.
Two 512Mb and 2 1Gb memory sticks may work but you really should keep the sticks
the the same size in pairs (two at a time, even if the BIOS says it sees the memory
installed 1 bank at a time)
The only clue I have is that two memory sticks, of the same size worked, 1 installed
will not work, 2 of mixed size did not work and 3 of different sized did not work.
Looks like you need at least two memory sticks of the same size, which means pairs.
On Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 11:08 am, Brenden wrote:
>I currently have a GA-7DPXDW Gigabite Server board that I just purchased recently.
> It has 4 DIMM Slots that are capable of holding up to 4 GIGS of PC2100 DDR Registered
>ECC type ram. The PC2100 DDR Registered ECC is the only type of RAM that my board
>will accept. In it I had 2 PC2100 DDR Registered ECC RAM (512MB each stick) in
the
>first 2 DIMM Slots and it worked fine. I recently purchased a PC2100 DDR Registered
>ECC 1 Gigabite stick of RAM from I-buy.com. When I stick the 1 GIG stick in my
first
>slot on my board and that is the only stick I put in this time, my BIOS detects
>the 1 GIG stick of ram and gets to the part of (Starting Windows). Before I even
>have the chance of hitting F-8 to use all of the advanced startup options that Windows
>2000 Advanced Server has it locks up at that point. When I keep the 1 GIG stick
>in the first slot and put one or two of the 512 sticks of RAM in the second and
third
>slot I get the same results. When I place one of the 512 sticks in the first slot
>and the 1 GIG slot in the second (I know your not really suppose to do that) as
soon
>as it gets up to the Windows is starting up screen it gets past about the first
3
>bars and I get the following error message:
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>Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \winnt\system32\config\SYSTEMced
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>I am able to get into the advanced startup options when the RAM is in this way trying
>to use last known good configuration and safe mode but comes up with the same error
>message. I get the same results when placing the 1 GIG stick in the third slot
with
>the 2 512 sticks in the first 2. Does anyone know if this is due to Windows 2000
>Advanced Server. I do know that Windows 2000 Advanced Server is able to handle
up
>to 4 Gigs of RAM although they dont really speciffy weather that can be DDR or just
>standard SDRAM. or could this be due to my board which is a GA-7DPWDW Server board
>purchased from Gigabite, or possible bad ram. Also does anyone know of a good hardware
>troubleshooting utility that will let me check the RAM before the system boots up??
>Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks ahead of time all
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