Dual Channel Memory
Tuesday, June 8, 2004 at 11:37 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by RdpC
(1 messages posted)
Intel 865PERL, P4 2.8 533Mhz Bus, 2x512MB DDR400 Markvision Value vdata RAM, MSI
nVIDIA GeForce 5200 128MB AGPx8, SB Live!, 450 Watt, Windows XP SP1, A/C in the room
(Around 30 șC Processor Zone). Latest BIOS P15, Latest nVIDIA WHQL driver. All the
computer is new, I just build it one day ago.
I started having this problems when I was installing Windows, the setup stopped telling
me some files where not able to copy, can't remember the file. Windows support said
it was due possible to a faulty memory. I tried installing Windows three times. Finally
when I was able to install it, my computer rebooted itself and sometimes it showed
BSOD with 0x50 error, a reference to faulty memory. I put the Virtual Memory to zero
to fix a possible minidump error. I then tried taking out one stick (512MB) and my
computer worked perfectly. I tried the other one alone to see if it caused trouble,
but the computer also worked perfectly.
I discovered that it only happens when I put the RAM in Dual Channel. If I use either
one stick or put both not in Dual Channel, my computer works perfectly.
In Dual Channel the BSOD occurs just before the Windows Welcome screen, the computer
reboots and contnues in a loop eventually showing the blue screen with reference
to win32k.sys.
The 865PERL, although it supports DDR400, it adjust the RAM speed at 333MHz when
the processor Bus is 533MHz. I will try lowering the speed to see if Dual Channel
Works. I will also try different adjustments to the AGP in BIOS to see if I can use
Dual Channel. Other than that perhaps the problem is due to:
Bad Quality Ram
Dual Channel not supported by Windows??!!
- Written in response to:
- re: BSOD, win32k.sys (Luke: Sunday, June 6, 2004 at 5:23 pm)
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