Weird memory issue

[Kendric Beachey]

Hi all, thanks for all the feedback.

I hoped to devote some time to this over the weekend but I didn't get
enough time to solve it.  However, I did manage to pull some more
info.

These are the memory modules in question...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178164  (I
ordered two sets of two.)

Also I've attached a photograph of the memory config page in my BIOS.
If you take it off of "automatic" there are two manual options.  One
of them just lets you make changes, while the other, called
"aggressive", assigns some values but lets you change them.

I couldn't find any settings for memory voltage, but is that implicit
in these settings?

I did toy around with changing some of the settings, mainly forcing it
to 667 MHz as that's what the memory is really supposed to be rated
for.  For the others I tried a few changes but not much as I didn't
know what was plausible.  Nothing allowed all four sticks to work at
once.

If I'd had more time to spend, I'd have done better research on what
the settings mean, etc...sorry not to have done so yet.

Kendric Beachey



On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Kendric Beachey
<kendric.beachey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just got four 2GB memory modules for my computer (running on 1 GB
> was starting to try my patience).  These were destined for the four
> slots on my motherboard (Intel DG965RY).
>
> These combinations produce a happily working machine:
>
> any one DIMM in any slot
> any two DIMMs in any two slots
> any three DIMMs in any three slots
>
> This combination produces a machine that can't get as far as the BIOS
> power-on self test:
>
> all four DIMMs in all four slots
>
> It fires up the fans and stuff for about five seconds, then shuts off.
>  Then it waits about five seconds, and fires up again...and it repeats
> the cycle, endlessly, until I pull the plug.
>
> Has anyone seen this sort of thing before?  All of the DIMMs and all
> of the slots have been proven to work in isolation or combinations up
> to three...it's just when I try to use all four at once that it conks
> out.
>
> Kendric Beachey
>
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