Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)'
Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 11:08 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brenden
(2 messages posted)
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:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \winnt\system32\config\SYSTEMced
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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